Highlights From the 2024 Employee Safety Conference
Look back at all the best moments and insights from the 2024 Employee Safety Conference, and then register for the upcoming 2025 event to experience it all for yourself.
In February 2024, 240+ security, business resilience, and employee health & safety professionals gathered in Austin, Texas, to attend the second annual Employee Safety Conference. For two and a half days, they learned from leading experts in the field, participated in hands-on workshops, and networked with peers from other world-class organizations.
As we gear up for next year’s Employee Safety Conference, we wanted to take a look back at some highlights as a reminder of all the valuable insights and connections made.
Highlights From Expert Panel Discussions
The speakers and panel discussions covered all things safety, security, and business resilience. Here are a few key topics covered throughout the presentations.
How to deliver on duty of care with a small team
Every business has a duty to protect their employees from harm, wherever they are working. But for many businesses, this responsibility falls to a small team juggling other safety, security, and/or business continuity concerns. In our sessions, we worked through the four ingredients necessary for small teams to ensure they are fulfilling their duty of care: agility, clear accountability, tools, and consistent, transparent communication.
How to safeguard business travelers
Business travel has recovered and grown since the pandemic lull. With the rise in threats to these travelers, it’s more important than ever to have a reliable strategy for protecting your people. Experts from companies like GitHub and Oshkosh Corporation broke down how they stay aware of threats away from home and communicate with their traveling employees through dangerous events.
Best practices for securing leadership buy-in on safety initiatives
Safety and security are built from the top down. But getting leaders bought into everything that drives organizational safety can be a challenge. The experts in the panel talked about how to engage stakeholders by gathering critical data and compelling businesses cases, leaning on internal and external partners to build strong alliances, and fostering open communication across your whole business.
Highlights From Learning Lab Sessions
Attendees participated in several hands-on product experience sessions to learn how to optimize platform use. Here are a few of the approaches our product team shared.
Use a multichannel strategy to expand reach
In today’s evolving communication landscape, you need a reliable way to reach distributed employees. Remote workers, in-office teams, and business travelers all need to get critical information immediately—but the right channel for one group might not work for another. By sending notifications to multiple channels, you’re better able to reach your people, no matter where they are or what they are doing. A multichannel strategy may include text, email, phone call, mobile app push, desktop takeover, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, and more.
Customize data to reach the right audience quickly
You can effectively protect your employees only with accurate and reliable data. But manually updating addresses and phone numbers and changing permissions and groups can be labor- and time-intensive. AlertMedia offers customizable and automated solutions that help you get the right data in the right place, segment your audiences, and utilize custom fields.
Use regular training and incentivized campaigns to engage employees
The success of your safety programs relies on how engaged and invested your employees are. After all, they’re often the first line of defense. In our learning labs, we explored how to use the AlertMedia products and mobile app to build training and educational campaigns that improve employees’ awareness and decision-making.
The future of AlertMedia products
Attendees also got a first look at some of the upcoming additions and improvements to the AlertMedia platform. They got a special preview of upcoming products and saw sneak peeks of some of the still-unreleased improvements we have rolling out soon.
What Attendees Said
“I was a little fatigued from all the events in the world and feeling alone in that. So, it’s been great talking to others in the field and discussing how we can overcome that and get the help from AlertMedia to do it.”
— Shirley Smith, Principal, Business Administrator, DIRECTV
“I learned a lot from the team members at AlertMedia. This conference showed me that if our organization has any roadblocks, you will always be there to assist us.”
— Luis Familia, Help Desk Analyst II, VIP Community Services
“I attended the first Employee Safety Conference in 2022 and had to come back because I gained insights into how different organizations use the products. I always leave ESC with new information and ideas that I never thought of.”
— Beth Harbold, Director of Quality Assurance and Emergency Management,
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Join the Fun in 2025
You can experience insights and highlights like these firsthand! Join us for an even bigger and better Employee Safety Conference in Austin, Texas, April 30–May 2, 2025. We’re returning to where the magic all began in 2022 and will be hosting ESC at the J.W. Marriott Austin! If you’re an existing AlertMedia customer, sign up to attend here! Not yet using AlertMedia? Schedule a demo to discover what has our conference participants so excited.
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