What does an emergency alert system do?
When you need to communicate vital information with your employees quickly to keep them safe, you need an effective emergency messaging system.
DeskAlerts is an emergency notification system for business that enables you to send urgent information to your employees in an emergency or disaster situation. If alarms start ringing because of a threat, the people in your organization will be notified promptly via emergency alerts that will provide instructions about what steps to take to be safe.
Leave no chance for life-saving information to go unnoticed
DeskAlerts is a mutichannel emergency messaging system, that can be used in conjunction with tornado warning sirens, disaster alarms, and the alert color codes used by hospitals. It delivers information to different kinds of corporate devices simultaneously even if internet and phone are down.
DeskAlerts emergency notifications provide a cost-effective method for real-time messaging that can be used by any organization.
Communicate before, during and after an emergency
Choose the type of communication that is suitable for the situation. You can prepare employees for emergencies, alert them if anything happens, get their feedback and update them with news about an unfolding situation and the consequences.
Unlike email or phone calls, messages sent via DeskAlerts cannot be missed and take only a few seconds to be sent.
Emergency preparedness
Emergency preparedness
- Prepare message templates in advance. Shortcuts will help you find the correct one immediately
- Panic button lets you to send all messages in two seconds
- Use screensavers, corporate lockscreens and digital signage to remind employees about emergency policies and procedures and raise awareness
Emergency trainig
Emergency training
- Invite employees to join training sessions via the RSVP tool and know exactly who is going to come
- Make training more effective by sending employees information via pop-ups
- Test employee knowledge with quizzes to be sure they understand the topic
Alert instantly
Alert instantly
- Alert staff immediately on every channel (desktop, mobile, digital signage)
- The messages will pop-up even if the computer is locked
- Use the panic button to send alerts in a matter of seconds
- Send pop-ups with emergency information, blocking the entire screen
- Send evacuation routes, updates about the situation and instructions via pop-ups, tickers, mobile push notifications and digital signage
Get feedback
Get feedback
- Check that your people are safe by sending surveys to their cell phones and computers
- Ask if they need any immediate assistance
- Know exactly who is not responding and be ready to help them
Keep informed
Keep staff informed
- Inform staff about what is going on after an emergency
- Give clear instructions about what to do right now
- Use the lock screen to cheer people up, tickers to update them with new information and pop-up and mobile alerts to reach everyone with vital news and CEO messages
Measurement and segmentation
Measurement and segmentation
- Use the statistics module to find out which actions worked best
- Use survey statistics to divide people into groups and send each group specific information (for example to people who worked in a damaged building - about new working conditions)
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Take control of the situation and keep in touch with your stafff
- The emergency notification shortcut lets you save time by preparing in advance to send in an emergency
- Sending communication to PCs even if they are locked so life-saving information doesn’t rely on a computer to be active
- As part of your crisis communications planning, the emergency alert notification templates coupled with staff training can help save lives when there is little time to act
- Keeping everyone informed about important information so they can instantly respond
- Use the corporate wallpaper function to place information about emergency exits on all employee screens
- Send videos that give instructions about what to do
- Use mobile alerting so employees offsite know about any emergency situations
- Send information using screensavers and digital signage to make the most of any screens in your organization
"DeskAlerts provided a reliable communications channel, which was proven to be vital in the state of emersgency during terror attack, in the event of usual channels being overloaded and inaccessible."
Healthcare, Belgium
“All departments use DeskAlerts to send communication that would ordinarily be missed via email communication.”
Deloitte
Accounting, East Africa
“DeskAlerts lets us broadcast system information to users. We have placed information monitors in several positions in our building where we broadcast systems alerts and news to share information about system breakdowns or other significant information that can affect peoples’ daily work.”
Topdanmark
Insurance, Denmark
“DeskAlerts enabled us to deploy emergency notifications to our employees’ desktops without relying on any of the existing platforms. It was important for us to have a pop-up notification that would be in the user’s face, no matter what they were working on at the time.”
Littelfuse
Electronics
Cut through the digital noise
immediately, always
Reach staff located
almost everywhere
Employees know exactly
what to do
Less time spent on communication,
more time on saving lives
