RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONNEL IN PLANT DURING EMERGENCY CONDITIONS

Nowadays, nearly every industrial plant throughout the nation are taking
concern on the emerging safety issues that is seemed to be more apparent - compared
to just taking serious attention to the production line. It's been said that if you think
safety is expensive, try an accident. Safety of each personnel is deeply linked on the
psychological part that contributes to the well being of an industrial plant andtherefore
the workers are part of the valuable assets to the company. Parallel to the development
of industrial competency and complexity, the safety issues have becoming more
technologically related. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), already known for its
agility and reliability in supply chain management, has now being diverging in areas
regarding safety. RFID is not just a label that tags for certain equipments / goods, but
now able to detect location of moving object, especially human, in an enclosed area.
From simulation upto practical application, RFID had shown significant improvement
for a faster and precise detection of personnel compared to other traditional barcode
detection or manual head count to ensure safety evacuation of all personnel during
emergency.