If your mass notification systems are in separate silos, chances are you're wasting time delivering a critical safety information to all of your people.
Purchasing and implementing a mass notification system requires buy-in from multiple departments to ensure everyone has a stake in safety planning for an organization.
Testing twice a year and only reaching people through one channel can lead to big headaches when it comes to mass notification. Learn why in this post.
Creating a testing plan that works in conjunction with emergency communication strategies helps build familiarity throughout organizations. This can assist in avoiding costly mistakes.
…It provides a consistent means of communicating and informing regarding an incident to, not just our first responders in those multiple agencies, but also to our staff and parents who are in multiple buildings, and our students in multiple buildings.
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— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —
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InformaCast provided us with a unified system with ease of management that allows us to even communicate with the baseball field and the weightlifting room wirelessly.
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— Elena Alvarez, Technology Director, Christopher Columbus High School —
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[InformaCast] is one of our most critical services. Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools.
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— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services, Redlands Unified School District —
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… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.
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— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —
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It worked very successfully. We were able to do a complete lockdown on our whole campus within about five minutes of initiating the alert to people.
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— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —
