Borne out of necessity
Vision Marketing has been involved with the design, training and implementation of the PASSPORT Accountability System nationwide since 1990.
Initially created by the Seattle Fire Department and surrounding mutual aid King County Fire Departments, the Passport Accountability System was designed to help ensure the safety of firefighting personnel by assisting officers in knowing the function and location of the personnel working at the scene of an emergency.
Through the combined use of name tags, vehicle passports, and status boards, incident supervisors
now have a visual aid to easily track the function and location and the time in a hazard area of each unit and the associated personnel working on the scene of any incident.
protection by design
The system was specifically designed to be user-friendly, easily implemented and does not rely on the use of computers or any electronic system. The system was designed to meet the NFPA standards, be inexpensive to implement, control team integrity, and operate consistent with ICS principles while improving firefighter safety.
Implementing and utilizing the Passport Accountability System properly can provide benefits in
tracking personnel on scene and prove worthwhile should a dynamic change develop requiring a PAR (Personnel Accountability Report).