| With the uncertainty of the world today, you never | | | | Depending upon the nature of the emergency, the |
| know when you might have a need for an | | | | emergency response system may go ahead and |
| emergency response system that you can use to | | | | contact the police, fire department, ambulance |
| contact employees and family members with | | | | services, or any other emergency services provider |
| instructions should the unthinkable happen. Too often | | | | that would be equipped to deal with the particular |
| situations get out of control because those on the | | | | situation. This can make things much easier for the |
| outside of the situation have no idea what's going on | | | | on-site manager who is attempting to coordinate |
| or are unsure of what they should do; this can lead | | | | employee response to the emergency as it will be |
| to conflicting orders being given, confusion setting in, | | | | one less step that they have to take in order to get |
| and damage prevention plans not being put into | | | | everything under control. In many cases the |
| effect until it is too late. By choosing to implement an | | | | emergency response system will make this call as a |
| emergency response system to handle such | | | | form of "silent alarm", so that in the case of a hostile |
| situations, you can help to keep these sort of | | | | situation or panicking employees the addition of |
| incidents under control should they occur. | | | | alarms or an audible notification system won't make |
| Automatic Messaging | | | | things worse than they already are. |
| One major benefit of implementing an emergency | | | | Mass E-Mail and Information Distribution |
| response system is that it can automatically send out | | | | A useful feature of many emergency response |
| a message to the telephones, cellular phones, and | | | | systems is the ability to send out a mass e-mail to all |
| pagers of those who should be the first to be | | | | employees and anyone else who is on a designated |
| informed of the situation that is developing. | | | | list to let them know the specifics of the situation as |
| Depending upon the emergency response system | | | | well as the steps which have been taken thus far in |
| that you are using, you may be able to choose from | | | | order to get the emergency situation under control. |
| several different messages which will relate more of | | | | It may be possible with certain emergency response |
| the specifics of the problem and let the message | | | | systems to follow this up with a recorded telephone |
| recipient know what steps should be taken next. This | | | | message as well, for those individuals who do not |
| will enable those in charge to be aware that there is | | | | have access to their e-mail or who may not be prone |
| something wrong even when away from the office, | | | | to check it often. Both e-mail and telephone |
| and will also let them know who they should contact | | | | messages can be updated as needed or re-sent at |
| to arrange for the emergency to be taken care of | | | | set intervals until a response is received or the |
| as well as what steps have already been taken by | | | | emergency situation has passed in order to ensure |
| the system. | | | | that the proper information has been distributed to |
| Contacting the Authorities | | | | everyone who needed to have it. |