What is Evacuation Management?

Kenai Evacuation gives safety officers a single dashboard surface to trigger an evacuation, alert everyone onsite, and account for them. It is the command centre for running both drills and real events at a location, replacing a paper headcount with a live, identity-verified roll call.

Walkthrough: what the Evacuation module is and where it surfaces in the dashboard.

How it fits

Evacuation builds on the people Kenai already tracks onsite. The live event surfaces inside the existing logs you use every day:

• Visitor Log shows every visitor with their per-person evacuation status.

• Employee Logs show the same for employees.

• Evacuation Logs hold past events and their post-event reports.

Because the event rides on the logs, the people in the roll call are the same people already checked in, so there is no separate register to maintain.

The flow at a glance

1. A safety officer triggers an evacuation from the dashboard. This starts the alert dispatch, the live roll call, and the post-event report at once.

2. Alerts dispatch simultaneously across SMS, WhatsApp, and email to maximise reach.

3. Each alert carries a link the recipient uses to report themselves Safe or In Danger. Responses appear on the roll call immediately.

4. Anyone arriving at the muster point signs out at the kiosk. During an event, any kiosk sign-in or sign-out (including facial recognition) registers as a muster event and updates the roll call automatically.

5. Officers watch the roll call update live and can set a person's status manually as they make contact.

6. Once the event is closed, Kenai produces a consolidated post-event report.

For how to read each status and what it means, see The evacuation status model.

Who can trigger an evacuation

Only administrator roles granted Evacuation permissions can initiate an evacuation. The organisation is responsible for designating these evacuation administrators, who run the procedure at the muster point using the dashboard.

Note: The muster point usually reuses your existing check-in kiosk, so arriving people sign out with the same fast paths they use day to day. No dedicated mustering hardware is required.