Worker safety is always of the utmost importance for all industrial facilities. Emergencies can happen anywhere in an instant, and when one happens in or near your industrial facility, rapid response is vital to keeping everyone informed and safe. Situations can quickly change, but an emergency mass notification system is an excellent tool to ensure the safety of your frontlines, especially during a crisis.
Whether it’s severe weather, an out-of-control fire, or an active threat around your facility, mass notifications by weavix™ guarantees deliverability to everyone in your facility at a moment’s notice. No matter what the crisis going on is, relaying critical information through a mass notification system can keep workers safe. Through any of our weavix™ devices, mass notifications go out instantly, whether they’re active or not, in the facility or designated geofenced area.
Our mass notifications can be used in a wide variety of instances, all specifically designed to keep your crews and contractors informed and safe during any emergency that might happen in your facility.
1. Keep your Frontline Workers and Contractors Informed During an Emergency
Earlier this month, devastating tornadoes ravaged Kentucky and led to the death of eight factory workers. While this tragedy has sparked many discussions and investigations, it was revealed that these workers were required to stay as the storms got worse. No one knows for certain, but an adequate emergency mass notification system could have helped avoid this disaster.
With emergency mass notifications, weavix™ instantly delivers important safety information to your crews instantly. In the most severe cases, this information can be the difference between life or death.
Information and timeliness are the two most important factors when it comes to an emergency mass notification system. When there’s a crisis in your facility, your crews need the right information at the right time in order to get to safety as fast as possible. Using mass notifications by weavix™, it’s possible to send the necessary information and stay in constant contact with your crews, even in the most severe emergency.
2. Target & Deliver your Emergency Mass Notifications Instantly
Industrial facilities are widespread areas, often covering multiple acres of land and employing hundreds of thousands of people. While keeping everyone informed of an emergency, some facilities need to target certain areas, rather than the whole facility. For example, if there is H2S in one unit but isn’t affecting another, sending a mass notification is crucial to the affected unit and neighboring ones. However, sending one to the complete opposite side of the facility might end up being more of an interruption to unaffected workers and waste valuable man-hours.
When necessary, weavix™ allows you to target specific units, areas or locations in your facility before sending an emergency mass notification. Each notification is delivered instantly to every weavix™ device, overriding any in-use devices and activating any inactive ones.
3. Improve Emergency Response Plans and Processes
Within our Internet of Workers (IoW) platform, you have access to a record of all emergency mass notifications sent throughout your facility at any given time. Along with that, you have more insights into the response of each notification, like when the notification was received and acknowledged, and how long it took workers to make it to muster.
This record provides valuable insights to plant managers, safety officers and others regarding emergency response within your facilities. Our mass notification system has been used to validate certain emergency preparedness plans while some have implemented new practices for a more efficient emergency response plan.
4. Respond to Emergencies in your Facility Faster
The faster your crews are informed of an emergency, the faster they are to respond accordingly. If there’s a fire, mass notifications can alert them of the nearest fire escape, a tornado, the nearest shelter. If crews are unsure of how to respond or are unable to get there, safety officials and managers can coordinate with them through our weavix™ communication devices of an alternate route.
weavix™ connects your whole facility through digital communication, and during an emergency, that makes a difference in safety. With a traditional mass notification system, communication is one-way, meaning frontline workers are made aware of a crisis but must remember the emergency plan themselves. This added coordination component weavix™ provides crews and facilities alike a better opportunity to get to safety when the time comes.
5. Increase Visibility on Emergencies in your Facilities
We mentioned before how our mass notification system is useful for improving and validating the efficiency of emergency response plans, but it only works if everyone gets the message. Time and time again, frontline workers have missed a message, prompting a “Say again” from the receiver. In an emergency, that can’t happen.
Instead, weavix™ causes every device within the area, whether it’s used by a contractor or worker, in use or in sleep mode, to go off at once. Not only does this have a higher chance of everyone getting the notification, it also gets everyone’s attention. Emergencies in the workplace need everyone’s full attention and cooperation to get to safety fast without any unnecessary delays or added risks.
weavix™ Does More than Emergency Mass Notifications
Mass notifications are only a portion of all that weavix™ offers your industrial facility. Our IoW platform provides a full suite of industrial communication capabilities to the entire frontline, without needing any third-party solutions. weavix™ replaces traditional industrial radios to maximize efficiency and visibility, whether it’s during an emergency or just a regular day on the job.
Depending on the goals for your facility, safety for your workers is always a top priority. As industry’s first IoW platform, weavix™ runs the best emergency mass notification systems to alert everyone within your facility or targeted area instantly. No matter what device your workers are using or near, our emergency alerts take priority to keep everyone safe. Keep your workers informed, respond faster and increase visibility within your facilities, especially during a crisis, with weavix™.
To see how weavix™ can work for you, contact us today to get started.
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