Two Steps to Enhance Safety in Your Manufacturing Facility
Kara Stamets, Content Marketing Specialist, Alertus Technologies
Manufacturing environments can be widespread and loud, making reaching all employees working across your facility difficult in the event of a natural disaster, fire, security threat, or equipment malfunction.
To ensure everyone’s safety, creating a plan for these types of emergency scenarios and investing in a unified, robust indoor notification system can help mitigate potential harm and demonstrate your commitment to the well-being of your employees.
Step One: Devise an Emergency Action Plan
When an emergency strikes, keeping your employees safe while maintaining business continuity is paramount. Planning with an all-hazards approach will provide long-term success, therefore you should create an emergency action plan (EAP) that highlights proper equipment operations, worst-case scenarios, and evacuation policies and procedures in a manufacturing setting. The plan should be tailored to the unique size and type of manufacturing facility you manage. All employees should receive annual training and copies of the plan to know what to do before, during, and after an emergency.
Alertus Omni Directional Indoor Speaker
Step Two: Outfit Your Facility with Impactful, Indoor Notification
Traditional fire alarms and PA systems are vital in effectively communicating emergencies, but organizations can go further to provide wide-reaching audible and visual notifications.
Alertus LED Marquee
The Alertus Omni-Directional Indoor Speaker is ideal for large manufacturing facilities and warehouses because it provides crystal-clear indoor, audible notification and can be targeted to notify specific areas, buildings, and passageways.
An LED Marquee effectively displays vital and general announcements in large areas. Paired with the Alert Beacon®, these two devices provide legible, actionable information to all employees.
To streamline emergency response, it is beneficial to unify your system so authorized users can activate and distribute notifications to many endpoints across your facility. Doing so will save time and lives.
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Industrial and Manufacturing Solutions
Industrial facilities face a unique set of emergency notification challenges. Many operate in loud environments with large footprints, making notifications via cell phone or overhead announcement ineffective or in some situations even impossible. Alertus offers an array of emergency notification solutions to help you reach everyone across your facility in the event of any emergency.
The Omni directional indoor speaker
Ideal for manufacturing facilities, Alertus’ Omni-Directional Indoor Speaker delivers zoneable audible notification for large indoor spaces and enhances communication with distinctive tones and voice messages to reach everyone during an emergency.