Public Safety

Everbridge for Public Safety:
Accelerate Emergency Response

Citizens rely on government to protect and inform them of everything from public health emergencies and natural disasters to road closures. Nothing exposes communication vulnerabilities like a crisis. Quick and reliable communication capabilities are essential to dramatically improving operational effectiveness and safety during an emergency. With the ability to quickly and easily alert citizens and share information and resources in critical situations, first responders and emergency communication teams can effectively respond to disasters and coordinate efforts, saving lives and property.

How Everbridge Improves Emergency Response and Coordination

Using Everbridge, organizations can safeguard the health and welfare of citizens, prevent panic, and mobilize first responders to a higher state of readiness all with one system. Everbridge enables you to communicate to internal groups, citizens, and other organizations in minutes via mobile phones, landlines, email, text messaging, instant messaging, pagers, and more.

• Rapid and reliable location-based communication. Communicate rapidly and reliably to citizens and others based on location. As an incident progresses and shifts location, Everbridge gives you the ability to identify and contact those in its path.
• Stronger collaboration within and outside the organization. Organize briefings with state agencies, county services, PSAPs, and city officials throughout the course of an incident using on-the-fly conference calling. Coordinate resource-sharing efforts.
• Improved emergency response and management. Plan and quickly enact emergency communications. Streamline and accelerate team mobilization, deployment, and on-the-ground coordination of crisis management and disaster recovery teams, local emergency managers, state agencies, volunteers, officials, and federal agency resources with efficient and accurate outreach capabilities.
• Visual intelligence for better decision-making. View the locations of fire districts, police stations, schools, hospitals, and more on the Everbridge map interface. Target communications accordingly.
• Greater situational awareness. Provide ongoing status updates as an incident progresses and is resolved. Interactive, real-time polling enables you to survey constituents to determine safety status, coordinate and manage volunteer resources based on special skills and location, manage requests for help. Include emergency plans, incident-related images, after-action report templates, and other important documentation as message attachments.
• Fewer mistakes and miscommunications. Automate time-intensive, error-prone manual processes and send clear, consistent messages to all your audiences, making ti possible for your staff to focus on important crisis management tasks.
• Continuity of operations. Meet Continuity of Government (COG) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) requirements. Sustain critical communications internally and externally over prolonged periods to resolve and recover from the incident expeditiously. Prevent the spread of misinformation and rumors through proactive, ongoing communications.
• Communications compliance and reporting. Satisfy National Preparedness Plan, NIMS, Homeland Security Target Capabilities, and other compliance requirements through automated notifications, real-time confirmations, and extensive audit trail reporting.