Employee Safety Blog

In a world of nonstop crises, global risk management is your safety net. Stay agile, protect your people, and keep operations on track—no matter the challenge.

Take control of organizational risks by conducting a comprehensive business threat assessment. By understanding the likelihood and potential impact of critical events, you can proactively safeguard your operations.

Responding to emergencies with confidence requires actionable intelligence. In this post, we’ll discuss how you can determine if the threat intelligence you’re getting is actionable and how to use it to your advantage.

Navigating the many threats of today’s global risk landscape requires a thorough understanding of the threats you may face, so you can better plan for how to stay resilient through disruptions.

Threats to your business and employees can appear in many forms, anytime, anywhere. Learn how to ensure comprehensive readiness by optimizing your SOC best practices.

Workplace fires are devastating to life and operations. Protect your organization from the flames with our life-saving fire prevention tips.

Improve operational resilience, manage risk, and enhance your safety culture, all with a comprehensive audit checklist for business continuity management compliance.

Don’t let a business trip turn into a travel nightmare by skipping the prep. Understand your risks ahead of time with a business trip risk assessment template.

Mass shootings are an alarming threat to modern workplaces, with incidents increasing by over 89% in the past five years. As these tragic events become more frequent, a robust active shooter response plan is vital.

An enterprise risk management framework is about more than adapting to risk. It helps you grow beyond the threats you face.

Safety isn’t just a responsibility—it’s also a way of running an organization. Keep your people safe and expand your preparedness efforts by planning for the year with a safety calendar.

This post covers why real-time threat intelligence is critical to employee safety and how AlertMedia customers turn critical information into action.

With tech deeply integrated into business, disruption risks are growing. Discover how the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will impact financial services and boost your organization’s resilience.

This blog examines modern applications of location intelligence and how organizations can use it to identify threats faster.

A structured approach to a fire emergency action plan is the best way to reduce these threats. Build your own emergency plan with our template.

A crisis can turn a minor issue into a full-blown disaster if you’re not prepared—having a solid crisis management plan is critical to protecting your business.

September is National Preparedness Month, the perfect time to take a step back and reassess your organization’s emergency preparedness plans.

Need some help getting started? We’ve got you covered.

The FFIEC’s business continuity guidelines protect a $22.5 trillion global industry from disruptions that could ripple across economies worldwide.

Get a simple, visual overview of a project’s potential roadblocks with a risk matrix. Assess and prioritize the risks of any team or company-wide project using our downloadable template.

A crisis might feel unpredictable, but it follows a pattern. Learn how to navigate emergencies by preparing for the four stages of a crisis.

When a fire occurs at work, a fire evacuation plan is the best way to ensure everyone gets out safely. All it takes to build your own evacuation plan is seven steps.

Choosing the right risk assessment methodology, whether qualitative, quantitative, or both, is crucial for effectively managing threats.

Use these tabletop exercise scenarios and examples to train your team to deal with high-stakes situations in a safe environment.

With tabletop exercises, prepare your company for big emergencies, even on a small budget. Customize any scenario using our downloadable training template.

You can’t mitigate a risk you don’t know about. Here are eight ways to identify your organization’s potential risks so you can better prepare to manage them.

In business, risks can materialize unexpectedly, from regional conflicts disrupting supply chains to natural disasters compromising infrastructure. The risk register plays a crucial role in identifying and preparing for these unforeseen events.

Learn what to include in your hurricane checklist and how to prepare your people and business in advance of a storm.

When a hurricane hits, you need a fast, reliable tool to help you protect your employees and keep your business afloat. Learn how these four businesses have used AlertMedia during hurricanes to track storm threats and communicate with their teams.

Before a hurricane hits, it’s important to prepare in advance and develop a hurricane communication plan that your entire organization can depend on.

Understanding the different hurricane categories and what they mean can help you prepare your business for hurricanes of any size.

Hurricanes are dangerous and unpredictable, but you can offer reassuring and helpful guidance to your employees before, during, and after the chaos with the right communication tactics.

An above-average hurricane season is approaching this year. AlertMedia’s in-house senior meteorologist, Jason Moreland, breaks down the predictions for this year’s hurricane season and what your organization can do to prepare.

Don’t wait until the storm is at your door to plan for this year’s hurricane season. Use this hurricane preparedness guide to protect your people and business. 

Your business faces operational risk every day. With the right intel, communication, and internal processes, you can get ahead of risk before it threatens business continuity.

Supply chain resilience is the backbone of business continuity, enabling organizations to anticipate, adapt, and swiftly respond to disruptions.

Your business doesn’t need to shut down when an emergency hits. With a thorough business continuity plan checklist, you can keep your people safe and stay operational through whatever crisis you’re hit with.

From fires and floods to cyberattacks and power outages, dynamic risk management can keep your people safe from the unexpected.

While you can’t eliminate all risks, you can take steps to minimize risk and get as close as possible to complete protection. Here are 10 common risk mitigation strategies to help you.

Preparing for recovery starts long before a disaster occurs. Use this checklist to help plan ahead to minimize disruptions and downtime from any business disaster.

You probably have an idea of the kinds of threats your business might face, but how carefully have you considered the full range of potential damage? That’s where BIA comes in.

Your business shouldn’t falter when faced with a problem. Learn to adapt and react to any disruption quickly and confidently with a risk management plan.

Preventing workplace violence starts with knowing how to identify risks. This post will cover how to create a plan to prevent workplace violence and improve workplace safety overall.

A disaster can derail your business without warning. Get back to business quickly and safely with a disaster recovery plan.

Tornadoes are some of the deadliest disasters a business and its people can face. Learn how to protect your operations and employees today.

When the dust settles after an emergency, the work starts for your disaster recovery team. This specialized team will navigate your business back to normal—all it takes are the right plans and people in place.

To protect your company in an emergency, you need to be prepared for anything. Develop a flexible and comprehensive emergency operations plan with these key strategies.

The devastating earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, serves as a stark reminder of how important an earthquake emergency plan can be. By understanding how companies weathered this disaster, the examples can inform your own earthquake response planning.

Disaster strikes when we least expect it, but if you’re prepared in the areas of business continuity and disaster recovery, you can work through and overcome any emergency.

Things don’t always go as planned, but even in failure lies opportunity. Learn how to use an after-action report format to improve your safety processes with clear action steps and examples to ensure high-quality emergency response for the next time.

Emergencies rarely announce themselves before people’s safety is on the line. Keep your company safe and ready with an emergency action plan.

The best kind of emergency is one that never happens. But you can manage the impact of unavoidable events with a good risk mitigation plan. In this article, learn the benefits of prioritizing risk mitigation and how to build your own plan.

Safety meetings are a valuable tool for keeping employees safe. Learn how to structure effective and engaging meeting agendas to foster your company’s safety culture.

Crises can damage a business’s operations, harm its employees, and tarnish its reputation, but you can mitigate the impact. Learn what makes a good crisis communication plan and how it can help your organization.

Emergency drills save lives. If it’s your duty to keep employees safe, prepare them to follow the plan.

Create or optimize your fire drill procedure with these five steps.

Learn the importance of an inclement weather policy to your business and understand what you should think about as you’re creating yours.

This post explores the all-hazards approach to emergency management, including how you can leverage it to protect your organization.

Don’t wait until the ground starts to shake to prepare for an earthquake. Learn how to create and run an earthquake tabletop exercise so your emergency response doesn’t crumble when it matters most.

Even a company like Coca-Cola, which leads many disaster response efforts, can face gaps in its plan. A disaster recovery tabletop exercise can help.

In today’s threat landscape, you need a trained evacuation response without confusion or uncertainty from a lack of planning. Learn how to use an emergency evacuation plan template to ensure you can keep your people safe when every second counts.

Position your company to survive and thrive, whatever comes your way, with the five-step risk management lifecycle.

Set your leaders up to effectively mitigate harm to your people and business. Here’s how to ensure your team has the necessary crisis management skills.

Minutes can mean the difference between a minor impact and a major disaster. Develop an emergency response plan now to keep your people, business, and assets safe during any critical event that may arise.

Your company relies on a wide array of systems and assets to function. Understanding the hazards your infrastructure faces and how to manage the risks is critical if you want to maintain operations through any conditions.

How will a disaster impact your business? What financial hit will your organization suffer? And how quickly can you recover? Take steps now with business continuity planning.

Your company may never eliminate operational risk, but you can minimize it. Make this high-stakes process easier by learning from examples and tested steps for managing risk.

Take time to anticipate the full range of potential disruptions and safety risks when business is good, so you can work to mitigate these risks before they upset the balance.

Don’t wait until the shaking starts to practice your earthquake drill at work. This guide will break down how to create an earthquake disaster response plan so you can train your team to take cover.

As wildfire seasons get longer and more devastating, businesses need to take preparation seriously. Fill the holes in your wildfire communication now.

What is at stake if a wildfire were to catch you off guard? The impact of wildfires on business is astounding, and companies need to be ready with proactive planning.

When you get the alert for a wildfire evacuation, you don’t want to waste time worrying and wondering. Use these best practices to plan ahead so you will feel prepared when it’s time to get out.

To ensure your operations are resilient and your people stay safe, be ready to meet a hurricane head-on. Rehearse your response plan and identify gaps with tabletop exercises.

When disaster strikes, it’s too late to prepare. Here’s how a tabletop test can help you turn your emergency management plan into a well-oiled machine long before you need to deploy your response.

Power outages can be devastating events that last anywhere from a few hours to days on end. But you don’t have to accept your fate as an idle business. With a power outage emergency response plan, you can mitigate these disruptions and keep your organization moving.   

Building an all-hazards plan for your business doesn’t have to be hard. Learn how NFPA’s 1600 standard can ensure your safety plans cover all the bases.

Your emergency response team is the tip of the safety spear when something goes wrong. Do your employees know who to call when an emergency rears its head? Find out how to cover all your bases with various incident response roles and plans.   

Don’t wait until you’re knee-deep to prepare for a flood. Learn how to build a flood emergency response plan to protect your people and safeguard your assets, so your business can keep serving your community through a disaster.

Keeping everyone safe and maintaining business continuity requires careful planning and consideration. Learn how to accomplish your safety goals through critical event management.

Tornadoes are dangerous and in some cases very common, and you can’t leave your employees hanging in the wind. Here’s how to make sure your business and people can stay safe during a tornado.  

You can start learning from an emergency and improving your response before the dust even settles. Learn how to run a hot wash and make the most of your time after a disaster situation.

In an active shooter attack, survival is the top priority. Learn how the “Run, Hide, Fight” method can help protect your people from violence and mitigate the impacts of an increasingly common crime.

Learn from past mistakes and successes alike with after-action reviews. Here are six strategies to maximize the value of reviews and reports.

Business resilience and business continuity may have differences, but they should work in tandem to build a strong business. This article breaks down how and why to integrate both strategies.

When lives are at stake, you can’t afford to ignore your organization’s risks. Learn what risk management looks like in healthcare and how to plan ahead to manage it.

Preparing for specific threats is one thing, but creating a holistically resilient company is something entirely different. Learn how to protect your company from all sides in this post.

Hackers and service outages are at the forefront of business leaders’ minds—and for a good reason: they’re increasingly common. Stay ahead of bad actors by creating your own incident response procedures.

Cyber threats are pervasive and becoming more difficult to prevent. Do you know how you’ll respond when under attack? Learn how to practice your incident response with tabletop exercises.

Safety drills are one of the most effective ways you can prepare your organization to deal with an emergency situation—without having to learn the hard way.

All kinds of weather might be knocking at your door. Do you know what you’re prepared to do about it? Explore the challenges and your options in this post.

Emergency management is crucial, expected, and incredibly difficult. Learn how to meet your emergency management duties in four phases.

How do you know what your travel program is missing without a benchmark? Your traveling employees’ safety shouldn’t be left up to guesswork. Enter: ISO 31030, travel risk management standard.

Too often, businesses think they have every potential problem figured out, only to find that a small snafu cripples their operations. Not sure if your organization is vulnerable? You’ve come to the right place.

Unlike other OSHA guidelines, meeting your general duty of care is rarely as simple as checking off a set of requirements. It often takes more thought and planning and even a little creativity. Here are a few examples of when and how your duty of care comes into play.

Your team’s distributed locations greatly expand safety variables and threats. Any measures that effectively increase your people’s safety and security will hinge on solid communication.

All organizations face setbacks and accidents, but without the right strategies, those incidents are likely to evolve into something much worse. Here are the eight essential strategies for every stage of crisis management to keep your employees safe and your business running. 

Shifting your safety efforts to a resilience management approach can help your business handle critical events and emergencies more effectively. Here’s how to get started.

Traveling for business introduces a host of problems. Following these business travel security tips will lead you in the right direction.

Situational awareness training is a great way to promote better safety practices at any work site. Keep reading to learn how to keep your employees out of harm and your business operating smoothly.

Information is the foundation of effective safety procedures but only if it’s reliable. In this article, we’ll show you how to avoid bad intelligence and improve your emergency responses.

There are significant differences between threat intelligence solutions that every buyer should understand before selecting a provider.

While workplace fires are sometimes out of an organization’s control, understanding risk will help dramatically reduce the likelihood a fire will occur.

Jennifer Pipa, VP of Disaster Programs at the American Red Cross, shares how emergency managers can improve their organization’s preparedness and response programs to better protect their people.

“Organized emergency” can sound like an oxymoron, but if you follow these steps beforehand, you will be prepared if a critical event does arise.

Safety leadership is key to the success of a business, but it’s not always simple. Learn how to be a stronger safety leader and how to get the rest of your team to buy into the importance of safety.

Hurricanes are dangerous and can cause a lot of anxiety for your employees. Learn how being prepared can help you support and keep your team calm during a hurricane.

Hurricanes can impact businesses far inland. Read this article to learn the various precautions your business should take regardless of where your offices are located.

Follow these best practices for hurricane preparation and response from companies that know how to withstand the storm.

There are many types of workplace violence, from verbal abuse to homicide. This post discusses the four primary types of workplace violence and covers six steps your organization can take to improve employee safety.

It is almost a sure bet that your organization will have a crisis on its hands at one time or another. Check out the recap of our recent webinar where we review ways to prepare for them.

A workplace fire can become a nightmare scenario for any organization. This blog will provide you with tips on how employees should react during a fire or emergency.

A resilient business is one that can weather any challenges and come back stronger. But with more frequent and severe threats, organizational resilience requires more than just standard drills and emergency planning. Read on for tips to foster business resilience in your organization.

Michele L. Turner, Author and Head of Global Business Resiliency at Amazon, discusses methodologies that can help organizations create sustainable resilience programs and better respond to unexpected events.

Emergency preparedness has taken center stage during the last year in the face of an increasing volume of threats. Here are some of the best preparedness tips, tools, and tactics used by 5 leading safety professionals in 2021.

Robert Glenn, Director, Office of Business, Industry, and Infrastructure Integration at FEMA, explains how businesses can receive disaster assistance, help their communities, and better prepare for emergencies.

Learn a comprehensive threat intelligence framework to monitor for and identify the threats facing your businesses today and protect your employees no matter where they are working.

Learn about how adopting a holistic approach to disaster preparedness can help keep your employees safe and your business up and running when faced with a crisis.

John Brooker, Director of Crisis Management for Space and Airborne Systems at L3Harris, on developing a cohesive, standardized crisis management program for all locations.

Being able to both send and receive information during an emergency is critical to keeping your teams safe. Learn about why two-way communications capabilities should be on your shortlist of ‘must-have’ features for any emergency notification solution.

Jonathan Erdman, Senior Digital Meteorologist at The Weather Channel, shares strategies that businesses can adopt to improve weather preparedness.

Safety leaders from Valley View Hospital discuss how they manage patient and employee safety in an at-risk environment.

Chris Josefy, Director of Applications and Data for the Houston Astros, discusses how the organization ensures the safety of employees and fans at Minute Maid Park.

Warby Parker’s loss prevention expert, Chris Hinger, shares how loss prevention strategies have shifted into overall asset protection, including employee safety.

Lukas Quanstrom, Co-Founder and CEO of Ontic, shares how organizations can adopt a proactive security approach to prevent crises.

In this Q&A, Sara Pratley, AlertMedia’s Vice President of Global Intelligence discusses how organizations can protect their people through threat identification and 24/7 situational awareness.

Keep your remote employees safe, productive, and engaged this winter with these safety best practices.

On December 16th, AlertMedia hosted a live webinar about how organizations can prepare for a new year of unpredictability and change. Read the recap and watch the on-demand version of the webinar to learn the steps that your business can take to remain resilient in 2021.

On November 10, meteorologists from the National Weather Service joined AlertMedia to discuss how to prepare for winter weather during the pandemic. Read the recap and access the recording of the webinar.

Gain useful insight on HR best practices that can be utilized to fulfill an organization’s duty of care and keep employees safe.

Preparing your people for impending damage and responding to community needs after a storm can help you overcome far-reaching consequences for your business.

Modern threat monitoring capabilities can show you the storm as it’s approaching and help you identify and communicate with at-risk employees.

Gain useful insight on communication best practices that can be utilized as we approach hurricane season in order to ensure employee safety. Check out our recap of our hurricane preparation webinar.

The COVID-19 Pandemic is all we think about these days, but there are other threats—such as hurricane season—that we need to keep in mind. Follow the four steps in this article to prepare your organization for this uniquely challenging hurricane season.

Experts agree that there will most likely be three stages to this pandemic. Read this article to learn how your business can prepare for every stage.

To facilitate an agile response to the pandemic, learn how to form central teams dedicated to pandemic response, known as COVID-19 task forces.

In the sea of information regarding Coronavirus, though, it can be hard to identify what your organization can do to prepare for the spread of the disease. In this post, we will discuss the practical steps you can take today to prepare your business for the Coronavirus.

Not all maps are created equal. In this post, we’ll walk you through the three different types of travel safety maps—and when to use each one.

The economic impact of a simple snowstorm can be upwards of $1 billion. Use this guide to winter storm preparation to minimize the impact on your business.

Automated emergency notifications can be a powerful tool in certain circumstances. In this post, we’ll explore the ways you can automate critical alerts.

Save precious time with emergency notification message templates you can build ahead of the emergency and send across multiple channels.

Here are some tips on how to select a mass notification system to ensure a painless process when implementing new emergency alert technology.

Facilities managers are usually the first to return after a hurricane. This article details 3 post-hurricane safety precautions they should keep in mind.

Event Pages significantly reduce the amount of time and energy required to provide important information during an ongoing critical event while simultaneously ensuring the right messaging gets to the right people at the right time.

Do your employees feel safe when a hurricane is on the horizon? Leveraging mass communication software will give them peace of mind.

As you’re evaluating emergency notification system vendors, be on the lookout for these seven must-have features of an emergency notification system that will make your communications easier.

AlertMedia, the developer of next-generation emergency communication technology, has announced the launch of the first “any-channel” notification platform.

In order to have a successful response during a real emergency, your practice should mirror a real emergency management situation as much as possible.