Some things you pay for, with the hope of never using. In the personal realm, various types of home and life insurance fall into this category. In the business world, it’s emergency preparedness. When disaster strikes, having the right systems in place to notify every building occupant of the situation and direct them to a safe location can save lives. While you might never need to implement it in practice, and we hope you never do, developing an emergency response plan is a small price to pay for the security and protection of your clients and employees. Here are three.

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Anyone who has ever had a flat tire knows it’s always a good thing to have a spare. If your picnic gets rained out it’s always good to have a backup plan.  The same philosophy applies to emergency notification. When a critical system such as paging, which is what we will focus on here, has a major component that fails it directly impacts the safety of everyone intended to be notified. You need a backup to ensure that any message still reaches the intended audience. There are certain levels of redundancy emergency notification systems can have depending on how robust.

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For paging systems, having the title of “emergency” to describe its type, indicates the importance of its operation. Unfortunate things do happen to electronics and wiring. Natural disasters, construction, prolonged power outages, as well as plain old age will eventually take its toll on even the most robust systems. It becomes a safety concern when these systems are not working or are only partially working. Remote monitoring can help notify people about potential problems and help correct deficiencies in an emergency paging system hopefully before an emergency event occurs. How remote are we talking about? In some cases, the word,.

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Mass notification, paging, and public address systems are used to notify workers, guests or other occupants of a building or an area of pertinent announcements and/or dangerous situations. Speaker systems, visual notification and even telecommunications devices can be incorporated into a mass notification plan for a space. The important factor is getting the message to the correct audience in a quick and clear manner in order to avoid chaos and save lives. Scenarios involving the usage of these systems can range from general announcements, severe weather alerts to active shooter emergencies, with the messages delivered being tailored for the situation.

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