Employee Safety Blog

Phone trees are yesterday’s answer to today’s problems. When an emergency comes knocking, you’ll want something more robust to depend on.

Reliable communication is a must in the healthcare industry where emergencies happen every day. It’s time to move away from outdated practices and build a communication system that will better support your hospital.

All kinds of weather might be knocking at your door. Do you know what you’re prepared to do about it? Explore the challenges and your options in this post.

When it comes to workplace safety, you can’t afford small communication mistakes like missed messages or misunderstandings. Learn how to better inform—and thus protect—your employees through improved safety communication.

Your team’s distributed locations greatly expand safety variables and threats. Any measures that effectively increase your people’s safety and security will hinge on solid communication.

Crises can damage a business’s operations, harm its employees, and tarnish its reputation, but they can be managed. Learn what makes a good crisis communication plan and how it can help your organization.

Follow the six steps outlined in this article to create an emergency response plan for keeping your people, business, and assets safe during any critical event that may arise.

As wildfire seasons get longer and more devastating, businesses need to take preparation seriously. Fill the holes in your wildfire communication now.

Before a hurricane hits, it’s important to prepare in advance and develop a hurricane communication plan that your entire organization can depend on.

Jenn Lim, Co-Founder, CEO, and Chief Happiness Officer at Delivering Happiness shares how companies can build a workplace culture where employees can experience meaningful happiness and feel psychologically safe.

Tabletop exercises are a low-cost yet highly impactful part of emergency preparedness. This guide will show you how to effectively conduct a tabletop exercise at your organization.

It is almost a sure bet that your organization will have a crisis on its hands at one time or another. Check out the recap of our recent webinar where we review ways to prepare for them.

Good internal communication is critical to keep your team engaged, safe, and informed. Learn strategies that will help you ensure employees are listening when it’s most important.

In this post, we’ll examine what duty of care is, how it can impact your business, and answer some frequently asked questions about this highly complex subject.

Many businesses choose to have a no cell phone policy at work, but that can pose a challenge when an emergency arises. This article goes through what those challenges are and how to prioritize the safety of your employees without the use of cell phones.

David Markley, Director of Operations at Grace Covenant Church, shares the tools and strategies he uses to effectively communicate with his employees, volunteers, and congregation during emergency situations.

AlertMedia’s Desktop Alerts are a fast, highly-visible way to reach employees with urgent messages. Learn how AlertMedia customers use this channel to keep their employees safe and informed.

In this blog post, we’ll explore key considerations for developing a COVID-19 workplace vaccination policy and messaging you can use to communicate decisions to employees.

Being able to both send and receive information during an emergency is critical to keeping your teams safe. Learn about why two-way communications capabilities should be on your shortlist of ‘must-have’ features for any emergency notification solution.

Maggie Mortali, Senior Program Director at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, shares why businesses play a critical role in mental health and how they can set the tone for the well-being of our workforce.

Testing your emergency notification system before a crisis hits is the best way to make sure you can keep your employees informed and safe. In this article, we examine the most recent national emergency alert test and go over some best practices for testing your own system.

With hybrid and flexible work arrangements becoming the new normal, organizations must evolve to keep their employees safe and connected, wherever they are.

Chris Josefy, Director of Applications and Data for the Houston Astros, discusses how the organization ensures the safety of employees and fans at Minute Maid Park.

Environmental Health and Safety Attorney, Chris Schlag, provides insights into addressing and complying with regulation changes for organizations developing their reopening plans.

A new commissioned Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting shines a spotlight on the ROI organizations can realize by migrating to AlertMedia’s modern emergency communications solution.

To improve safety and fulfill their duty of care, companies with remote, mobile, and field-based workers are turning to AlertMedia’s emergency communication software.

We recently spoke with a leading expert on remote work to discuss employee safety and communication best practices for distributed teams.

In this post, we discuss how AlertMedia leveraged emergency communication best practices during the recent winter storms in Texas.

In this blog post, we discuss the importance of emergency communication and establishing trust between employers and employees.

In this first post of a multi-part blog series, we’ll explore why email alone is insufficient when it comes to keeping today’s mobile, distributed workforce informed during critical events.

In this Q&A, infectious disease expert and epidemiologist, Dr. Mark Stibich, provides actionable advice for employers to protect employees returning to work.

Whether your employees are working remotely or in the office, winter brings safety risks and operational challenges for which your organization should be prepared.

The three companies highlighted in this article figured out how to use AlertMedia in creative ways to get the most out of their investment in a modern emergency communication system.

For the fourth consecutive year, American Security Today named AlertMedia the best mass notification solution in the market.

On November 10, meteorologists from the National Weather Service joined AlertMedia to discuss how to prepare for winter weather during the pandemic. Read the recap and access the recording of the webinar.

Modern emergency communication systems have many practical applications, helping facilitate communication during any event in which a large number of employees need information quickly.

In this webinar recap, we discuss practical insights on features to consider in a communication system, questions to ask vendors, and how to find a system to fit your organization’s requirements.

In this post, we discuss business-critical situations that can be just as detrimental to your organization as a traditional emergency and how a modern emergency communication solution can help you mitigate risk.

Assembly Bill 685 will take effect beginning January 1, 2021, and impacts the vast majority of the nearly one million businesses currently operating in the state of California.

In this post, we’ll discuss four of the most common business challenges organizations face and how a modern mass communication solution can help you overcome them.

AlertMedia recently hosted our first-ever “Coffee With An Expert” —a live Q&A session on minimizing COVID-19 induced anxiety in the workplace.

Gain useful insight on HR best practices that can be utilized to fulfill an organization’s duty of care and keep employees safe.

As an employer, there are important steps you can take to combat employee anxiety. Here are six ways you can ease employee anxiety during the pandemic.

Faced with an increasingly remote workforce due to COVID-19, today’s HR teams have their work cut out for them. So, how can HR leaders successfully navigate this challenge? Enter modern emergency communication software.

It’s an HR leader’s responsibility to make sure that they communicate effectively with their employees. In this guide, we’ll outline how to do this as best as possible.

As organizations around the world adapt to a new way of working and an evolving business landscape, HR’s role in safety has never been more important.

Learn how your business should message hurricane emergency communications through all phases of a hurricane: before, during, and after the storm.

Getting feedback from employees is critical to reopening your business. In this article, we will discuss the three main ways your business should use surveys as it reopens: wellness checks, health screening, and coordination.

Gain useful insight on communication best practices that can be utilized as we approach hurricane season in order to ensure employee safety. Check out our recap of our hurricane preparation webinar.

The decision of whether to reopen is weighing heavily on the minds of many businesses today. Reopen your business with confidence by asking these four questions.

In the sea of information regarding Coronavirus, though, it can be hard to identify what your organization can do to prepare for the spread of the disease. In this post, we will discuss the practical steps you can take today to prepare your business for the Coronavirus.

Today, AlertMedia formally announced 24/7 Emergency Hotline. This new offering provides organizations with a dedicated phone number their employees can call in case of any emergency, at any time.

Is your company ready to overcome winter challenges? AlertMedia has the capabilities to help your organization manage every phase of a winter storm.

Does your mass notification system enable you to pinpoint the location of your employees on a map so you can keep them safe no matter where they are?

We spoke with Tom Porter, former director of Human Resources & Administration for Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. to get a customer’s take on why an internal communications system was so important for this fast-moving company.

Save precious time with emergency notification message templates you can build ahead of the emergency and send across multiple channels.

Event Pages give organizations a centralized hub to manage all communications around an emergency or critical event so employees are always on the same page.

As the number of communication channels continues to grow, using only one channel becomes less and less effective. Although mass-texting has its benefits, you also have to consider several important factors that limit its usefulness.

Looking for a reliable mass notification system, Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union switched to AlertMedia. Learn how AlertMedia was able to help.

Implementing a small business communication system helps keep your employees safe and connected.

Location data is being used for more than just stalking friends on Snapchat or finding your way to the nearest gas station. Companies can leverage location data to protect, inform, and engage employees.

Keeping your drivers and those around them safe is a responsibility every employer should take seriously. Read this article to learn the top 8 driving safety tips for employees.

Any plan is only as good as the technology that supports it. Here are 5 signs that you need to upgrade your mass notification system.

The best emergency notification software should be implemented quickly, including integrations and training. Follow these 5 tips for a painless integration.

As you think about how your team can use technology to communicate with your people, these must-have elements of a modern mass notification system should be utilized to mitigate loss during any critical event.

Event Pages significantly reduce the amount of time and energy required to provide important information during an ongoing critical event while simultaneously ensuring the right messaging gets to the right people at the right time.

Still using an email alert system for emergencies and urgent messages? A mass communications system can do so more reliably, faster, and with less effort.

Employee communications is one of the most cited employee complaints when it fails. Know what to tell and what not to tell to keep them engaged.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to ensure that no employee, patient, or family member is left uninformed during an emergency. Read this article to learn how communications can help you prepare.

Being able to communicate quickly and easily with your employees is key to a successful emergency plan. Learn how to improve your plan with location data here.

When was the last time you surveyed your employees to learn which communication channels and devices they most use?

How does an organization begin to encourage employee participation in social media sharing? The first step is to communicate with them.

How do you keep the small company feel, with the ideal flow of communication and sharing of knowledge, while still growing? You need software to bring people onto the same page.

Employee engagement is an oft-discussed topic, but do you really know what moves the needle? Does your organization have a way to measure it? How do you know if things are getting better?

It is estimated that cyberattacks cost businesses as much as $400 billion a year and is expected to reach $2 trillion by 2019.

Governments and private sector companies often fall short when it comes to communication during critical events—and their technology is the reason why.

Thinking of extending remote working for more employees in 2017? Here are 5 reasons why it would be worth the risk.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to deliver mass notifications to your employees. Learn from the NYC police how to do it right.

Texting is quickly becoming the communication channel of choice for organizations who want to inform, protect, and market to an audience.

Organizations struggle with the same challenges as some of the world’s largest countries: which mass alert system is best, can do the most, and easily reach the most people?

In a world where consumers demand near-instantaneous service and support, it’s all about efficiency. Mass communication software is the answer.

Think a mass communication system is only capable of blasting out alerts to your employees? See how it can be used for event management and more.

Being told what NOT to do is often more beneficial than being told, step-by-step, how to do something. Read this article to learn the worst advice we’ve ever heard about incident communications and how to manage incidents when they inevitably occur.

Plenty of companies have some sort of emergency plan in place and even a few of those practice the plan on a regular basis with their employees. Yet, nearly 60 percent of American adults say they have never practiced what to do in a disaster at work, school, or home in the past year.

Employee communication is the backbone of well-run organizations and vital to keeping employees aware of critical events.

An employee notification system can revolutionize the way you communicate with your personnel. In this post, we discuss the primary benefits of having a notification system capable of keeping your staff informed during critical events.

In this post, we’ll cover how a modern employee notification system enables you to streamline important communication with your people and why it’s the best investment you’ll ever make.

If you want to effectively communicate with a big audience, you need a mass notification system that is fast, secure, and far-reaching.

While many mass notification systems offer mass texting or mass emails, few platforms come with the diverse array of features that AlertMedia offers.

Careful preparation and planning will help make implementing an emergency notification system go smoothly. Here’s how AlertMedia can help.

Using a mass notification solution to send surveys can help you engage your audience and obtain important, time-sensitive information during business-critical events.

Your communications platform is the hub for every important piece of information monitored, exchanged, and managed.

There are different ways to use mass communication systems: In emergencies, operationally, or for general company-wide communications. Which is right for you?

Communicating with your employees is key to running a successful business. Here are a few ideas for mass communication interactions you can use at your business.

An effective emergency communication strategy starts with letting your employees know your company has thought through critical issues and is prepared for the situations that can impact their safety.

AlertMedia conducted a survey of 400 organizations—including schools, healthcare facilities, municipalities, and large enterprises—and learned some interesting statistics about emergency communication and the need for a modern solution.

The sole use of social media in critical situations can have drawbacks. With AlertMedia you can send out multi-channel emergency notifications.

One-third of large organizations currently DO NOT have a technology solution in place for emergency mass communication. And that’s a problem.