As we highlighted in Friday’s blog post, an organization’s preparation for workplace violence incidents is paramount in helping to prevent a major tragedy from occurring. While ultimately, the best way to ensure your personnel’s safety in such an event is by employing a combination of prevention and actionable response methods, one of the most effective safety investments is an emergency notification system. We have previously covered the benefits of having an emergency notification system for your organization, and strongly recommend reading that blog post if you have yet to do so. Given the recent workplace violence events in the media, we wanted to give an in-depth look into one particular emergency notification system created by Vigilance Software.

Vigilance Software specializes in providing a systems integration bridge that also functions as one of the most advanced emergency notification solutions on the market. They have developed an emergency notification system that is capable of completing any number of an establishment’s safety and security actions with the click of a button. What makes Vigilance even more effective is that this button is accessible to anyone of administration designation, on their computer desktop. When the alert button is pressed, a preconfigured group of alerts is processed by the server to automate and engage defined safety and security policies. The desktop alert displays a message on the desktop of any computer—PC or Mac—running the client and designated to receive the type of event alert being distributed.

Vigilance goes a step above other emergency notification systems on the market because of their unique pairing of electronic security professionals with a software development team to design a system that fully integrates with other security and life safety systems, including fire protection, access control, intrusion detection and communication technologies. By creating these integration platforms, Vigilance is capable of automating most emergency procedures, pushing out site-specific emergency notifications, announcing general information such as building closures, initiating a lockdown protocol at a threatened facility, blasting out Amber Alert-type notifications at the town level. Vigilance is even capable of alerting building managers of potentially costly temperature fluctuations or equipment failures. The software can initiate an almost unlimited sequence of events, and respond to the simplest or the most complex needs.

Just as workplace violence can span every industry, organizations in every industry can benefit from the security and operational capabilities of Vigilance Software. In a time when employees are looking to their employers to ensure their safety, corporate implementation of a comprehensive emergency notification system can offer peace of mind that our greatest assets—our people—are protected.

Norris Inc. is proud to be New England’s preferred distributor of Vigilance Software.  If you are interested in learning more about Vigilance Software and having an emergency notification system in your organization, we would be happy to provide a one-on-one consultation. Please reach out to our Security, Access, and Vigilance Systems Integrator for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, Dan Gelinas at 207-249-5505.