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Top Tips For Keeping Your People Safe, Informed and Productive during an emergency

The key to safety in an emergency is timely and free-flowing information to those who require it or are affected; helping people to make crucial decisions that impact the outcome of the crisis.

It is also important that organisations understand if/when an emergency impacts their people by engaging in two way meaningful communication.

Klaxon can help you in the following ways:

1. Allows you to create pre-approved templates for anticipated emergencies so that you can communicate promptly with your people via the most effective channel.
2. Supports you in asking your employees to respond to the mass notification, to help you understand who has been impacted. For example ‘I need help’, ‘I’m safe’, etc.
3. You can follow up with only the employees who haven’t responded to the emergency communication, helping you to establish which employees might have been impacted by the emergency and allowing you to provide targeted support.
4. Makes it easy for you to see who has and hasn’t responded to the communications so that you can take appropriate action by ascertaining whether your employees are affected, and in what way.
5. Supports multiple delivery options to help you get through to your people. These include smartphone alerts, SMS, voice/telephone call (for people that are blind or have poor vision), Microsoft Teams , Web portal, web browser and more.

Do you have an emergency communications plan? What does it look like?