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.