Top 5 Communication Challenges in Healthcare
Written by Asipe Nokenke | Marketing Assistant In healthcare, every second counts. Effective communication during emergencies can significantly improve patient outcomes and save lives. The World Health Organization recognises the critical role that timely and accurate communication plays in managing health crises worldwide. However, despite advances in medical technology, many hospitals and healthcare networks still face major challenges in emergency communication. From mass casualty...
Industry recognition for Crises Control Managing Director
Crises Control Managing, Shalen Sehgal, has been recognised in the coveted Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards as Cloud Professional of the Year 2021. The title was awarded by the judges to an individual who has made visible and lasting changes to their business through the medium of cloud. The award...
A Guide to Cyber Security Incident Response Planning
Cyber attacks are one of the most common incidents that any organisation can face. In fact 39% of businesses in the UK reported a cyber security breach or attack in 2020. Every cyber incident no matter how big or small will initiate a cyber security incident response effort aimed at...
Crises Control Opens New Cloud-Computing Data Centre Region with Sahara Net
At Crises Control we are constantly looking for ways to improve our service offering to our customers in whatever way we can. Since Crises Control is hosted on the cloud, this involves creating a cloud strategy that works for every customer, no matter where they are in the world. As...
Airport Crisis Management And Excellent Crisis Communications Go Together Like…
… Beach holidays and sunscreen. Or the aviation industry and media scrutiny. You don’t need us to tell you that every incident in an airport, both large and small, attracts public interest in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Where there used to be a “golden hour” to get...
How to write a business continuity plan
Your business is maturing and the time has come to think more strategically about business continuity in the event of an emergency. But the question remains, how to write a business continuity plan? This quick guide will take you through the steps one by one to creating business continuity plans...
How good is your IT contingency plan?
During the recent fire at the OVHcloud data centre in Strasbourg, France, the company told their clients including the French government, the Centre Pompidou, cryptocurrency exchange Deribit, and several cyber criminal groups to activate their IT contingency plans. Their what? Isn’t the point of using a third party cloud provider...
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...
