Creating an Emergency Profile in EmergencyOS is the first step to tailoring the evacuation experience to meet your organization’s needs. Each profile is comprised of a collection of settings tailored to meet the needs of a specific site. Profiles empower your team to establish precise details for any type of evacuation.
Create an emergency profile
- From the left sidebar in EmergencyOS, click Manage, then select Emergency Profiles.
- Click Add Emergency Profile.
- In the Emergency Profile Name field, enter any name for the profile.
- From the Sites drop-down menu, select which site the profile is for.
- Fill in details for "Configure Profile". For more information, see Configure profile settings.
- Set up your email or mobile messages. For more information, see Message settings.
- at the bottom, click Save.
Configure profile settings
- Emergency Type: Select whether the profile will be used for an emergency, drill or both.
- Nature of Emergency: Select the nature of emergency that will apply for the profile. If the natures of emergency do not apply to your site, select other and you can customize a new nature of emergency (Ex. Truck blocking driveway).
- Participants: Select the participants that will partake in the emergency. You can choose the following:
- Lists: Include signed in visitors, signed in employees, or everyone in the employee list.
- Reports to: Include participants who report to a specific user.
- Employee Tags: Include employees with specific tags.
- Specific Employees: Include the names of specific employees.
- Send List of Signed In Visitors to Host: Determine who the hosts are notified of in case of an emergency event.
- Disabled: will turn off this option.
- Hosts own visitors only indicates that in the instance of an emergency event. the host will only be notified of visitors that have signed in under their name.
- All Site Visitors indicates that in the instance of an emergency event, hosts will be notified of all visitors that have signed in for that day.
- Expected Duration: Set the expected time in minutes to complete the emergency event
- Response Type: Select an evacuation method to be used with this profile.
- Roll call will use a digital evacuee list to update statuses as evacuees arrive at specified mustering points.
- Building sweep will use pre-established zones to ensure all building occupants have evacuated safely.
- Alert only will notify participants of an emergency, but will not require them to take further action.
- Mustering Points: If you have selected the roll call response type, you will need to select mustering points to be used in case an event is triggered.
- Zones: If you have selected the building sweep response type, you will need to select zones to be swept an case an event is triggered.
Message settings
- Email and Mobile Start /End Messages: You can choose to enable email and mobile start and end messages, in the event of an emergency. Once you enable any of these options, it will allow you to customize the message further, to tailor to your specific emergency event.
- Mobile - Status Requested: When this feature is enabled, a two-way communication channel will be established between the safety officer or admin and all employees and visitors, who are part of the evacuation procedure via SMS.