What Does an Emergency Alert System Do?
When you need to quickly communicate vital information to keep employees safe, an effective emergency messaging system is essential.
DeskAlerts is an emergency notification system for businesses, allowing you to send urgent information during emergencies or disasters. When threats arise, employees are promptly notified via emergency alerts with safety instructions.
Leave No Chance for Life-Saving Information to Go Unnoticed
DeskAlerts is a multichannel emergency messaging system compatible with tornado warning sirens, disaster alarms, and hospital alert color codes. It simultaneously distributes information to several corporate devices , even in the absence of phone or internet access.
DeskAlerts offers a cost-effective real-time messaging solution for any organization.
Communicate Before, During and After an Emergency
Choose the appropriate communication type for any situation. Prepare employees for emergencies, alert them during incidents, gather feedback, and provide updates on unfolding situations and their aftermath.
Unlike emails or phone calls, DeskAlerts messages cannot be missed and are sent within seconds.
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)
Panic Button Alarm System
- Notify up to 10,000 people within seconds using the virtual panic button on corporate devices.
- One-click activation with pre-configured shortcuts for swift emergency response.
- Send various alert types, including pop-up messages, full-screen notifications, and scrolling desktop tickers.
- Pre-created notifications for scenarios like fires, active shooters, and severe weather save valuable time.
- Integration with other emergency systems and targeted communication to specific geographic areas or segmented audiences.
Inside our Use Case Guide to Emergency Alerts for Safety Communications:
- How to navigate real-world emergencies with actionable scenarios;
- How to utilize DeskAlerts’ tools effectively during crises;
- How to enhance team safety and ensure more efficient communications.
"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.”