Is Your Organization Prepared for Severe Weather?
Severe weather can strike at any time, including at work or school. Does your organization have a plan with policies and procedures for how to respond?
Here are a few questions for you to consider when creating or updating your severe weather response plan:
- How do staff members currently learn about weather alerts?
- Do people in your organization listen to a weather radio or wait to hear outdoor sirens?
- Who is in charge of initiating an alert to your organization?
- What happens if the person in charge is out of the office or out sick?
- Can staff members trigger an emergency notification if they're away from their desk?
A notification system capable of keeping you and your staff informed wherever you are can help provide an answer to many of these questions by:
- Monitoring for alerts from the National Weather Service or any other agency that publishes using CAP protocol
- Automatically notifying the right people when severe weather is approaching your area
- Allowing you to gather your management/safety team together to discuss response efforts
- Sending emergency notifications to your entire organization via several different devices, such as overhead paging systems, IP phones, digital signs, iOS/Android devices, and more. The more methods of communication you have, the better chance you have of reaching people wherever they are. A notification system can make this simple.
Does your organization have these concerns regarding weather notification?
Learn More:
InformaCast is a full-featured emergency notification system. It can be used to monitor for severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service (and other organizations) and send text and/or audio notifications via a variety of platforms to reach staff wherever they are. It can also be used for a host of other emergency events, like when someone dials 911 in your organization or when someone presses a button to request immediate help. Contact Singlewire to learn more, request an online demo, or download a free trial of InformaCast.
Next Steps:
Here are several great resources that can help you set up weather notifications in your organization:
- Whitepaper - What You Need to Know to Communicate During an Emergency
- Academy Webinar - Learn More about Weather Alerting with InformaCast
- Weather Alerting Using FIPS6, UGC County, and UGC Zone Codes Explained
- National Weather Service Website
- National Weather Service CAP Information Page for Active Alerts
Contact Singlewire to learn more, request an online demo, or download a free trial of InformaCast.
