We are very excited to share the 2018 volume of Critical Mass Magazine: Automating Emergency Notifications.
We hope emergencies never happen. With the increasing instances of violence in the workplace, environmental disasters, and terrorism, corporations are being challenged to minimize the associated impacts to operations and lives. Unfortunately, the reality is they will arise at any time. Preparing for potentially disastrous events cannot be left to an ad hoc management approach to risk. The question is how can organizations mitigate risk when they do arise?
Critical Insights, Emergency Communications & Notifications, ENS Implementation & Management, Selecting the Right ENS, Emergency Planning & Preparation, Automating Emergency Notifications
No business is immune to disaster. Weather events, workplace violence, fires - these types of emergencies can affect any type of business at any time, without warning. It is enough to keep an operations manager or an executive up at night, worrying about what could go wrong.
Emergency Planning & Preparation
Many organizations have implemented an emergency notification system to notify their people and most have an emergency action plan. Although this plan is helpful to an organization’s internal team, what about direction for those receiving the alert? Just sending an alert via text message or email to your people is not enough.
News & Events, Emergency Communications & Notifications, Emergency Planning & Preparation
Integrating your emergency notifications with any and every communication channel possible is paramount. Digital signage is a common technology found on college and corporate campuses, and should be utilized during emergencies to not only be sure those already registered to receive text messages and emails are informed, but to also inform all visitors and those who are not registered.
ENS Implementation & Management, Emergency Planning & Preparation
Today, the ways to notify your people are practically endless. They are registered to receive text messages and/or emails. And, whether implemented or not, they have the capability of receiving those same notifications as they are sitting in front of a computer that displays an emergency message, while walking down a hall hearing it via a PA system, or by seeing a digital sign broadcasting information. As a result, your people have multiple ways of staying informed about what is going on and can remain off property if directed.
But what about your visitors and/or those not registered to receive alerts?
Emergency Communications & Notifications
