Emergency communications solution

Eastman Chemical, Sadara (a Saudi-Aramco/Dow Chemical company) and USS-POSCO Industries use AtHoc to protect workers and assets during any critical situation, ranging from active shooter to hazardous vapor release and fire.

Protect Against Workplace Violence: A growing concern in all enterprises is the disturbing and frequent instances of workplace violence and active shooters. AtHoc helps reduce the risk of injury by giving the facility’s first responders the power to immediately warn personnel about the threat, account for everyone’s status and follow through with differentiated and targeted messages throughout the life of the threat to further ensure everyone’s safety, including messages about continuation of shelter in place, buildings/areas to avoid, evacuation instructions and directions for response teams as to the precise location of the threat.

Modern and Complete Tool for the Environment Health & Safety (EH&S) Team: In an emergency, a trusted communication tool is paramount for effective crisis management. AtHoc gives EH&S managers the power to use all assets in their facility to immediately and reliably get the word out. Specifically, AtHoc unifies analog and digital systems over the IP network, and as a result, warning messages can be sent across widely dispersed areas to reach everyone using any combination of sirens, radios, computer desktop popups, instant messengers, digital signs, texts, emails, VoIP work phones, mobile or smartphones and more. With a push of a button, all of these systems can be activated for a mass warning that provides unprecedented completeness in reaching everyone for the EH&S team.

In addition, the communication is fully interactive and closed loop, such that anyone is able to confirm his or her arrival at designated rally points, provide an update on status and location and importantly, from their smart phones, be able to send photos, videos and maps of incident data back to the remote security operations. The real-time feedback from the field brings visibility to the emergency operations center and provides valuable insights that help with dispatch decisions.

“Our safety and security solution for the industrial sector harvests valuable lessons learned from AtHoc’s entire U.S. military and Homeland Security customer base,” said Guy Miasnik, CEO of AtHoc. “One of these lessons is the power of mobility. Because smartphones are so ubiquitous and powerful, they have become the de facto go-to communication device for nearly everything that has to do with emergency management and communications. We are honored by the trust that the industrial EH&S community has placed in the AtHoc Interactive Warning System, which brings together the power of mobility and the IP network to provide a complete interactive communications solution for safety and security in the workplace.”