4 Must-Have Emergency Mass Notification Solutions for Industrial Facilities
Kara Stamets, Content Marketing Specialist, Alertus Technologies
Is your industrial manufacturing facility prepared to respond quickly in the event of a potentially life-threatening emergency? Whether it's a severe weather event, active shooter incident, or equipment failure, planning ahead with a high-quality industrial facility mass notification system is the first crucial step in ensuring workplace safety and maintaining business continuity.
While rapid, effective alerting can be challenging in large, loud, and fast-paced environments, mass notification technology has evolved to enhance industrial emergency communication through a variety of capabilities and features.
To help you better facilitate organization-wide emergency warning when it matters the most, we’ve gathered three must-have industrial mass notification solutions below.
3 Must-Have Emergency Mass Notification Solutions
1. Audible & Visual Notification
Overhead announcements are not always easy within an industrial manufacturing facility made up of loud machinery noise. By implementing both audible and visual notification, you’ll increase your chances of reaching all workers, including those with different auditory or visual abilities.
An audible-visual device such as Alertus’ Alert Beacon uses bright strobes, clear emergency tone sounders, screen display text, and voice synthesis to immediately capture attention during a time-sensitive crisis. LED marquees and digital signage overrides are also impactful visual alerting tools for displaying easy-to-read, actionable messages at a distance in high-occupancy working zones.
2. One-Step System Activation
When it comes to quickly spreading awareness and mitigating harm, streamlined emergency activation is key. From wall-mounted activation buttons and pocket-sized WiFi buttons to a mobile activator app, one-step activation tools are designed to disseminate critical information to all emergency notification endpoints within seconds. This is especially useful for industrial operators and facility leaders who juggle a wide range of responsibilities throughout the day.
With true single point of activation capability, authorized users will be empowered to activate a life-saving manufacturer emergency alert by a press of a button from the floor or production line.
3. Intelligible Speakers
Live voice announcements may be nerve-racking, or in some cases, impossible, during a high-stress situation. IP-based audio devices are ideal for significantly enhancing real-time audio notification without the need for conventional analog cables.
Alertus’ IP Text-to-Speech (TTS) speaker provides a user-friendly, standalone, and highly intelligible indoor speaker that can seamlessly integrate with your facility’s existing audible systems. Leveraging industry-leading TTS technology, this speaker conveys fully customizable spoken instructions about the specific emergency. Alertus’ Omni-Directional Indoor Speaker also provides crystal-clear audible notification to inform building occupants across large indoors of emergencies.
For widespread outdoor notification, a long-range giant outdoor voice system helps to instantly deliver crystal-clear outdoor emergency alerts using audible siren tones and TTS. Alertus offers a variety of powerful outdoor alerting devices, like the Alertus High Power Speaker Arrays (HPSA) and the Alertus Mobile High Power Speaker Array, to protect your outdoor population at risk.
4. Two-Way Communication
Personal notification is a critical aspect of mass notification and can be used to alert employees working in hazardous conditions. The Alertus Recipient App allows end users to receive push notifications from the Alertus System and offers a panic button feature so users can quickly send incident reports to supervisors of an emergency on the floor. A mapping feature on the app allows users to set a pin of the incident so dispatches know exactly where to go.
Two-way radios provide person-to-person communications to send and receive alerts. Alertus’ Two-way Radio Integration uses TTS to provide clear, spoken voice emergency alerts to the appropriate personnel — no matter where they are.
Contact us to determine how effective your current MNS is, and learn about Alertus’ effective and code-compliant solutions to fill in any gaps in emergency communication.
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Customer Q&A
Jeremiah Schupbach, Systems Engineer at Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), spoke to Alertus about the benefits of having a flexible, integrated, and easy-to-use mass notification solution. Read our Q&A for insight on how different PCA sites are leveraging the Alertus System to better ensure notification delivery, particularly for factory workers who lack access to traditional desktops.