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Readying the Emergency Action Plan

Most of us are familiar with the adage "bad things happen to good people". Well, bad things can happen to good business as well, and in this day and age it is easier to be prepared than ever before. We may not consider the possibility of emergencies or disasters, but the reality is they can happen. What might be a disaster for one business could be a simple hiccup for another and vice versa. The bottom line is: if you and your business have not realized the importance of being prepared for emergencies, your business could crash harder and faster than a car off a cliff. This is not the time to play Boy Scouts. But you could put their motto to use to ensure that emergencies in your business place have an action plan - Be Prepared.

Mass notification is one of the first steps that you can take towards creating a plan of action for crises. You need to have a mass notification system in place to ensure that your workforce, partners, and affiliates, have easy access to all the required data as and when emergencies arise. It ensures that the information goes out at once, so that people can react and respond accordingly.

Email and SMS messaging are great things to include in your emergency backup plan. Ensure that your workforce and affiliates are listed in one group for both your email and SMS service. When an emergency arises, it makes sense to send a group email and a group SMS simultaneously. This will ensure that no matter where your people are located, they will receive your urgent message immediately. In situations where urgent messages must be sent out, it is not considered improper to be redundant. You may want to send out one or two messages within a short time frame to ensure that your entire staff and affiliate base have received your instructions.

You would be advised to install a voice broadcasting system into your mass notification plan. Here you will be using the telephone to contact each member of your workforce by the telephone. This is very similar to email and SMS messaging, in that each member you send the message to will receive the message at the same time on his/her phone. This will be a voice message stating your situation and how you think the people should react. This is a very effective and user-friendly tool that allows you to communicate your expectations in just a few minutes.

It is never too late to start thinking about your emergency system. Let technology help you to get through to your workforce in crisis situations.

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