NEW FEATURES - We've launched two new intelligence features to all teams over Easter. Direction Frequency plotting helps you to understand which direction you're most frequently getting tasked. We take a bearing from your base to each of your incident locations and then split them up into 20 degree sectors. We size each sector relative to the frequency of incidents in that direction to help you understand where you're getting tasked.



Optimum Base Location map analysis is where if you could put your base anywhere, would provide the shortest possible travel distance to respond to all incidents. We base this calculation on what we call 'The Center Of Gravity' of your responses. We also draw a polygon around your outerlimits to aid in visualization.

To access these features sign-in or sign-up and go to:

[Analytics]-> Right Side Bar [Direction Frequency]
[Analytics]-> Right Side Bar [Optimum Base]

Emergency responders need to hold valid qualfications for the work they do. Training officers need to schedule periodic refresher courses and monitor regular practice in each skill. A team of 20 people can have over 100 different qualification expiry periods that need to be tracked by you - and paper folders with grids or tables are complex and slow.

In our Spring release, we launched integrated qualification management to help you record certficates held and dates issued. You may set required numbers in each area and get alerted when qualifications expire or requirements for compliance are broken. Expectations can be set for who should hold valid qualifications in each award and as you update membership groups your expectation lists are dynamically updated by us.



With complete qualfication history on every member, you can archive and view past certifications, licenses, and refresher courses. Animals are treated just like members, and you can create profiles for team search dogs and mounted SAR animals to assign licenses, medicals, and certifications. You can even assign handlers to animals and track their training and work hours together as a pair.



To try it out with your team, sign-in to your account or get started

DUBLIN, IRELAND - Our new attendance sheets are a tribute to our users. A few weeks ago a discussion arose in our improve-it forums, "can we have an automatic sign-in sheet with our members listed on it that we can download?". All team accounts have now been upgraded to include the attendance sheet. Access it by going to an activity on your calendar and pressing 'Download'. The sheet will list the names of everybody you requested for the activity with tickboxes (automatically updated to the latest confirmation data) and space for a signature if required. It is listed in the same order as the attendance entry to make logging it afterwards really easy.



A blank attendance sheet with all members listed is available in [Analytics] -> [Reports]. We suggest you print a few of these blank to keep available for the following potential uses...

• Quick sign-in at an impromptu activity.


• At an incident, mark who is on-scene and a note of which sub-team they're on.


• During training, use it to make debrief notes against each member.


• In an examination or practical test, mark passes or fails and results on it.


• When polling, mark votes or opinions.


• Collecting funds, list who has paid and amount received.

Add further uses in the comments if you'd like to contribute.

Rescue teams can now add public updates from their incidents to any website. Once you've added a 'D4H Widget' to your site, when you create an incident we'll automatically update your public stats across all websites you've installed the widget on.

You can even add a team sponsor message and link to the widget, and give a copy to local newspapers or supporting companies to put on their websites. To see a great example, take a look at the website of Bay Search & Rescue in the UK.



We've got different templates to choose from, both horizontal and vertical. To add a widget to your account, you need to be the Account Owner. Visit [Team Settings] and choose [Public Updates].





Try it out with your team, sign-in to your account or get started for free.