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Winter safety tips for employees in private and public sectors 

everbridge

This can include automated alerts, sirens, or mass messaging platforms to reach individuals across different locations. Automate severe weather alerts These alerts are crucial for organizations to ensure timely communication and response during winter storms.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. While there are many ways to alert people about imminent dangers, many public safety systems: cannot reach everyone, everywhere, and every time.

Alert 69
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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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Emergency Alert Systems Both Then and Now

Alert Media

The Government’s Take on Alerts. I was surprised to learn that the federal Emergency Alert System (EAS) was only used at the local level until November 9, 2011 at 2 pm eastern. All of the television and radio test sirens you have ever heard were initiated by your local authorities. Bringing the Emergency Alert System In-House.

Alert 52
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Turning Security From Reactive to Proactive

Security Industry Association

Like certain other advanced technologies, PVM focuses on preventing crimes by drawing immediate attention to unauthorized activity and empowering a trained operator to direct a response and, if necessary, notify local authorities. If the intruder does not retreat, operators inform the individual that authorities will be contacted.

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SIA New Member Profile: Morningstar Corporation

Security Industry Association

Backed by our reputation for dependability under extreme conditions in demanding applications – and enhanced by our coveted hazardous location certifications (HazLoc) – Morningstar products are standard equipment now in installations ranging from the North Sea to the Sahara Desert.

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SIA New Member Profile: Swan Island Networks

Security Industry Association

PO : We provide near real-time situational awareness and alerting, giving organizations visibility and reaction time to emerging threats around the world. We focus on all hazards events that are correlated to customer locations and communicate the information through visual dashboards and text/phone alerts.