How Modern Tech Improves Emergency Response Times in the Workplace
Written by Anneri Fourie | Crises Control Executive When an emergency strikes at work, whether it’s a fire, cyberattack, or medical crisis, how quickly your organisation responds can determine the outcome. Every second counts. Delays can lead to injuries, operational downtime, financial losses, and reputational damage. Traditional emergency response methods, such as manual call chains, paper-based business continuity plans, and siloed communication, are slow...
An Alert You Can’t Ignore: Emergency Alert App Push Notifications
In an emergency you want as many ways as possible to get the message across to everyone you need to alert. The more channels you have, the more likely you are to get hold of them. That’s why most mass notification apps will offer multiple channels including SMS mobile alert...
Sounding the Alarm: Towards a Public Warning System and EECC Article 110
When a critical event happens, every public authority from governments to emergency first responders has a responsibility to ensure that the public are kept informed and safe as events unfold and in the immediate aftermath. This responsibility has been made particularly explicit by the EECC Article 110 requirements that every...
Hello, Can You Hear Me? Keeping the Lines of Communication Open in a Crisis
One of the key components of a crisis is keeping the lines of communication open for employees, partners, authorities, and even the public. But it’s how you do it that is important. How do you keep clear lines of communication? Who talks to whom? What are the messages going out,...
Crises Control named in Gartner Market Guide for emergency mass notification solutions
LONDON, Tuesday 1st December 2020: Crises Control, the mass notification and incident management platform, has been named as a key vendor in the latest Gartner Market Guide for Emergency Mass Notification Solutions, released on 25 November. This is the first time that Crises Control has appeared in a Garter Market Guide, which this year...
You need more than insurance when disaster strikes
The High Court has just handed down its long-awaited judgment in the Covid-19 business interruption insurance test case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority. This follows the rejection by insurance companies of many claims by businesses that had applied for pay-outs under their BI policy clauses for losses suffered during the 105...
Crises Control named as one of 20 most innovative companies of 2020
Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution has been named by GSL Magazine as one of the 20 most innovative companies of 2020. This is just the latest in a series of award wins for Crises Control since it was launched in 2016, including being named by...
Public Sector, G-Cloud 12 digital marketplace announced
G-Cloud 12 allows all UK public sector organisations to save time and cost in their procurement process by relying on the pre-qualifications and terms of use agreed under the framework. Learn more. Shalen Sehgal, Managing Director of Crises Control, said: "I am delighted that Crises Control has been listed on the G-Cloud 12 framework,...
Covid-19 represents a unique opportunity to win extra funding for business continuity
BC professionals have six months to win extra funding post Covid-19 lockdown. The unprecedented disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a unique window of opportunity for business continuity professionals according to new research from the Business Continuity Institute. The research conducted for the BCI’s latest publication, The Future...
Helping organisations with a safe return to work for their employees
The Covid-19 outbreak has amplified the need for fast, insightful and transparent communications during a crisis. It is their communications with employees, stakeholders and customers that is truly defining those organisations that have adapted most effectively to the pandemic. Health concerns, job security, economic turmoil - it's a challenging time...
Media coverage for Crises Control pandemic toolkit
Crises Control is generating media coverage for its new pandemic response toolkits which allow its customers across the globe to reach out to employees and stakeholders with critical messages and company announcements as offices reopen and furloughed staff return to work. Over nine million workers have been furloughed in the...
Building organisational resilience – a guide for business
All businesses must navigate a rapidly changing risk environment characterised by globalisation, disruptive technologies, increasing supply chains, climate change and an accelerating rate of change in markets and society. This rapid rate of change creates emerging risks which can outpace an organisation’s ability to manage them. Increasingly interdependent networks and...
Crises Control helps customers respond to pandemic crisis threat
With the novel Coronavirus COVID19 now present in more than 35 countries and more than 80,000 infections reported, the World Health Organisation is believed to be on the verge of declaring a global pandemic. The impact on the world economy is already significant, with global supply chains from China massively...
Don’t rely on a telephone call tree, even an automated one
Way back in digital pre-history, say around 2004, before the explosion of web 2.0 and social media, the telephone call tree had its place. It was a clever way of getting a message out by telephone to a group of people using the power of the group, with each contact...
Don’t get put out of commission like Travelex
The critical cyber event currently affecting Travelex could yet be an existential one for the company. Their operations have now been ‘out of commission’ as it were for more than ten days and still show no sign of being resolved. They appear to have got themselves in a stand-off with...
Operational resilience in a complex world
Crises that threaten the reputation and operations of an organization are becoming an everyday occurrence. As the business environment becomes more complex, resilience continues to climb the agenda of every C-suite. Accordingly to the AON Global Risk Management Survey 2019, every organization, industry and economy around the world is confronting more...
Crises Control Middle East Cloud offering now available
Middle East Cloud Offering by Crises Control Today, Crises Control is taking a major step forward to help support the resilience of our customers in the Middle East region by offering the next generation of intelligent business resilience applications and tools from our first cloud data center region located in...
