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How Orange County implemented emergency preparedness across 50,000+ sq ft
Orange County uses PlanSafe® to deliver site-specific emergency preparedness training to more than 150 staff across multiple buildings.
About Orange County, California
Orange County, California (often referred to as O.C.), is a major region in Southern California situated between Los Angeles and San Diego counties. It has built a strong organisational culture around workplace safety and emergency preparedness.
Facility managers are responsible for ensuring staff receive the training required to maintain high safety standards across their sites. This includes ensuring employees understand emergency procedures, evacuation routes and safety responsibilities, while maintaining compliance with annual safety audits.
As the organisation grew, delivering consistent emergency preparedness training across multiple buildings and more than 50,000 square feet of facilities became increasingly difficult using traditional methods.
Delivering emergency preparedness training at scale
Before adopting PlanSafe®, Orange County relied on paper-based emergency preparedness training and face-to-face sessions.
This approach created several challenges:
- Difficulty delivering training consistently to 150+ staff across multiple locations.
- Limited visibility into training completion and compliance.
- Low engagement with traditional training materials.
- Administrative burden coordinating in-person training sessions.
- Challenges maintaining up-to-date safety information for annual audits.
To strengthen their safety culture, Orange County created the role of Department Safety Officer and began searching for a more effective way to deliver emergency preparedness training.
They needed a system that could deliver site-specific safety training while tracking compliance across the organisation.
“PlanSafe® helps the County communicate safety procedures and prepare for our annual safety audit. The PlanSafe® dashboard provides reporting so I can see whether our compliance targets are met and identify who needs to complete their training.”
Visual, site-specific emergency preparedness training
Orange County implemented PlanSafe®, Locatrix’s online emergency preparedness and safety training platform.
PlanSafe® provides interactive, site-specific safety training, helping organisations deliver emergency preparedness programs tailored to individual buildings and employee roles.
Through the platform, staff access training that includes:
- Interactive floor plans showing evacuation routes.
- Locations of AED machines and fire extinguishers.
- Identification of staff trained in CPR and First Aid.
- Shelter-in-place procedures and emergency response guidance.
Because training is linked to specific buildings and roles, employees receive information relevant to their own workplace environment.
The system also enables safety officers to send incident notifications and emergency alerts to relevant staff, ensuring trained personnel can respond quickly when needed.
PlanSafe®’s reporting dashboard allows the organisation to track training completion and compliance across the entire workforce, supporting annual safety audits.
“When knowledge is easy to access, employees are much more receptive. At Orange County we are proud of our culture of safety. Having a system in place to support this culture keeps safety a priority.”
Stronger safety culture and improved compliance
By implementing PlanSafe®, Orange County transformed how emergency preparedness training is delivered across its facilities.
Key outcomes include:
- Site-specific safety training delivered to 150+ staff
- Improved visibility into training completion and compliance
- Higher engagement with interactive emergency preparedness content
- Streamlined preparation for annual safety audits
- Reduced administrative burden for safety managers.
The system ensures that employees have easy access to the information they need during an emergency, strengthening the organisation’s overall safety culture.
The success of the initiative was recognised when Orange County Information Technology received a California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Challenge Award for Innovation.
50K+
SQFT managed
150+
Staff trained
PlanSafe® at a glance
Everything you need to deliver and manage site-specific building and fire safety training – on one platform.
Training videos
Out of the box video-based training content tailored to your sites and workforce groups.
Audit trail visibility
Quickly prove who has been trained and when, making audits faster and simpler.
Legislative updates
Pre-built content aligned with current WHS and fire safety requirements as regulations evolve.
Secure hosting
Host training, records and reporting securely, with controlled access across teams and locations.
Site-specific emergency preparedness and safety training
PlanSafe® delivers site-specific safety induction and emergency preparedness training that keeps your people informed and your organisation compliant.
Site-specific safety induction
Emergency and evacuation procedures
Role-based safety training
Numbers that matter
Locatrix supports organisations across drafting, training and emergency response. These numbers reflect real buildings, real teams and real operational outcomes.
133K+
Active building floor plans
778K+
People trained
167M+
Square metres mapped
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