Emergency service access to locked site

[505diff]

Hopefully a BIB or other emergency service worker can help with this, I’m involved with a site which has visitors and staff sometimes staying over night, the buildings are two miles down a disused airfield peri track. For obvious reasons this track has a locked gate near the road to prevent access to the buildings and farmland by the local tea leafs. Visitors are given a key to use to gain access, we not want to have combination locks as visitors would still have the code after leaving and regular code changes are not practical.

However my concern is if any time visitors require the emergency services they will arrive on site two miles from the problem with a locked gate in front of them, we propose to fit a key safe on the gate containing a key. My question is can we pre register the code for this key safe with all the emergency services, so if required they can gain access in the same way Ambulance can gain access to someone with a life line pendant. If you have any ideas of how to go about this it would be greatly appreciated.

[Deva Link]

No problem if the fire brigade turn up - they carry big bolt cutters.

I would imagine though, that if the people on site are employees, then their employer will be in all sorts of trouble if emergency access isn't available.

[Medic-one]

505diff said:

Can we pre register the code for this key safe with all the emergency services, so if required they can gain access in the same way Ambulance can gain access to someone with a life line pendant.

You can call up all 3 control rooms (police/fire and ambulance) and tell them the keycode, but there isn't much communication between the 3 so you would need to tell them all seperatly.

I know with our controlroom (ambulance) they can register notes to adress (adding a keycode etc) but sometimes we get the call not as the actual adress, or we get send in the direction of the adress before all details are available, so it would be best to just mention the keycode to the 999 service at the moment you call/need them and they will then pass it on to the vehicle they're dispatching.