Notification with just one click. Because safety should not be left to chance.
WHY?
In today’s world, schools must be prepared for anything. Unfortunately, that means being prepared for the worst.
Establishing a strong and clear communication system is important in any organisation, it ensures that everyone stays up to date on important information. To achieve this communication network, the first step is to determine the type of notifications to send out. This can vary widely, from emergency messages to small updates on progress or events.
Examples of types of notifications:
Active shooter.
PLIVO event.
Fire evacuations.
Acting behavior.
Or chemical spills.
In addition, it is crucial to identify the specific target groups that should receive each notification: some departments may need certain types of notifications while others do not, therefore clearly defining and correctly setting up functionality is important and the key to success. With an appropriate notification system in place, organizations can ensure that all necessary communications are deployed quickly and efficiently.
In any emergency situation, clear and precise communication is essential to ensure that everyone stays safe. Clear and concise communication is essential to ensure that everyone is safe in any emergency situation.
Critical situations require flexibility.
That’s why TeamAlert offers several features:
FUNCTIONALITY
Four ways you can communicate quickly, easily and safely with your employees
TeamAlert is a mobile app that gives you and your employees access to notify and send messages in a quick and easy way. With TeamAlert, everyone involved in a team will receive alarms and messages on their mobile immediately. Development of the incident can be followed continuously and the recipients can contribute their own comments. Best of all, TeamAlert gives you an intuitive, simple user interface for a fraction of the price of similar products. All you need is a smartphone.
In this blog post, we’ll take a look at five ways you can use TeamAlert to improve communication.
- Communicate crisis situations in real time
With TeamAlert you can easily communicate with recipients through immediate push messages, regardless of the various silent mode functions. This is particularly useful in cases where every second counts, such as when one of your employees is alone on a risky mission or a fire breaks out in one of your premises.
- Various functions
The app gives you more functions than sending out push messages. Another feature is that one can see the position of the members of your team. Through geolocation, one can activate functions that give the opportunity to follow and observe where the person is, during dangerous or unforeseen events, or as a safety measure in field work / excursions.
If you are out on an excursion, you can set a return time, if you do not return, an alarm will go to selected colleagues.
If you want to talk to your team, it’s two keystrokes away and you can effectively send a message to everyone.
If you have a recurring challenge, for example with a student acting out, a custom button can be the solution. Here you put together a predefined text with a predefined team. A scenario is triggered either by pressing a button in the app or by pressing a physical button.
- Quick and clear communication in emergency situations
If an emergency situation arises, correct and effective communication is essential to maintain safety. With TeamAlert, an internal team can quickly send out alerts and updates about the unexpected situation, even as it develops. In this way, everyone will be up to date with the latest updated information and take appropriate action.
- Collect feedback from the team
It is important for managers to collect feedback from employees to improve services and address any concerns they may have. With TeamAlert, you can easily send out surveys or polls to collect this feedback. Alternatively, you can use the app’s comments function to engage employees during public meetings or other events.
Effective communication is needed more than ever before. With TeamAlert you have a quick and easy way to keep in touch and follow your internal network, the team while collecting valuable feedback from them. Try Team Alert today to see how it can benefit you.
TeamAlert is used by several municipalities, which have seen the need for better notification services as part of the emergency plan in the event of fire and terror in schools and kindergartens.
HOW DOES THE SOLUTION WORK?
TeamAlert is app-based, and enables all employees in schools and nurseries to send out an SOS alert to their colleagues when a particularly threatening situation arises. The notification can be sent from a private mobile, work mobile or tablet.
In the event of a notification, everyone who has been added to the notification system of the school or nursery in question will receive a loud sound alarm. The alarm overrides silent mode on the phone and enables you to quickly initiate the emergency plan that follows the notification in question.
Time can save lives in a critical situation, and it is therefore very important that the employees realize that the alarm has been triggered even if the mobile phone is set to silent mode.
Effective implementation of measures
As a rule, it is either evacuation to a safe place or barricading in the form of locking entrances to the room you are in, which will be the measure in question. Good plans for this exist in most schools and kindergartens today.
What has been missing, however, is a tool for sending out the alarm and sharing critical information during an alarm situation, to provide a better decision-making basis for “what is best to do for me and my children/students?”. TeamAlert solves this in a simple and effective way.
More functions for crisis management
In addition, TeamAlert also provides other functions for crisis management. Particularly relevant for schools and nurseries are the built-in functions for showing position and telephone conference with groups.
A registered user can here choose to share their location with other employees. This is relevant, for example, if you are on a trip with a group of children and an accident occurs without knowing exactly where you are.
A telephone conference with relevant key persons will also improve the decision-making basis for those involved, and help to resolve the situation in an appropriate and efficient manner.
The regulations are clear
The mobile-based notification system TeamAlert has been put into use as a result of the municipalities’ need to have an effective channel for preparedness around critical incidents such as terror and ongoing shooting. The municipalities are also required to have routines and equipment for handling accidents and dangerous situations, through regulations on environmentally-oriented health protection. Use of Team Alert is also in line with the national emergency plan, which includes warning systems for various crisis scenarios to ensure the safety of children, pupils and staff.
Incomplete preparedness routines
Today, the situation is that several municipalities have good and incorporated preparedness routines for fire, but often lack routines and warning tools for many other threats. As the pattern of action and the emergency preparedness plan of the employees are completely different in the case of terror and fire, the same alarm system cannot be used for these two different incidents either.
SIGN UP: Get started with TeamAlert today
Create a trial subscription for your organization, download the app and get started today. It is without cost or obligation.
The starter edition includes basic functionality for up to 5 members:
- Set up your organization
- Split your members in different teams
- Alert with the TeamAlert-app
- Comment and update on Alerts
Upgrade to a paid subscription and also get:
- Number of users after agreement
- LocationAlert
- Positioning
- SMS Fallback
REFERANCE
Drammen Municipality leads the way
TeamAlert has now been rolled out at all municipal schools and kindergartens in Drammen Municipality. That means over 70 schools and kindergartens. This has been done in close collaboration with the municipal management, and in addition to providing thorough training to principals and managers in kindergartens, all employees have also received a comprehensive digital introduction to the notification system TeamAlet and its functions. This has worked very well, and the solution has also been well received by all schools and nurseries.
TeamAlert.
Alerting made easy.
Whenever, where ever, with on push on a button.
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