How Toyota Accelerates Emergency & Incident Response Times
With 50 facilities and nearly 80,000 employees spread across the continent, Toyota Motor North America has a lot of ground to cover with their emergency communications.
Hannah Kinnett — a member of the emergency management and business resiliency team at Toyota — explains how they leverage mass notifications and a level system for emergency alerts to accelerate incident response times.
Topics covered:
- How Toyota’s resiliency team operates
- The most common emergencies at Toyota’s manufacturing plants
- The level system used for emergency management alerts
- Backup routes for emergency notifications
Follow-up questions for Hannah? Email her at [email protected].
The Employee Safety Podcast is hosted by Peter Steinfeld, SVP of Safety Solutions at AlertMedia.
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