How to Prepare for Spring and Flood Safety Month with Mass Notification

March is spring and flood safety month in the United States. With spring weather arriving, the risk for natural disasters such as floods, increases in workplaces and homes. Monitoring flood warnings is crucial in order to maintain safety and effectively communicate information to people.

Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States. Failing to evacuate flooded areas or entering flood waters can lead to injury or death. Floods may result from rain, melting snow, coastal storms, storm surges, and overflows of dams and other water systems. They can develop slowly or quickly; causing outages, disrupting transportation, damaging buildings, and creating landslides.

Emergency mass notification systems can help organizations prepare for floods and avoid harmful situations by sharing real-time information with personnel. In this blog, we’ll explain how mass notification systems can keep your business and its people safe and prepared for spring weather.

Using Mass Notification for Spring and Flood Safety

It is important for organizations to prepare, plan, and educate their people on what to do and where to go in the event of a flood. You should train and practice evacuation routes, shelter plans, and gathering the right supplies. Mass notification solutions can help with this by giving you the information you need so your life isn’t in danger.

Revolution is an emergency mass notification system that connects people, systems, and processes together. This software allows senders to alert people located within the building or off-premise using integrated devices.

Five Mass Notification Features Your Organization Can Use

Automated National Weather Service (NWS) alerts, panic buttons, in-building paging, and response check-ins are several beneficial tools that Revolution offers to help customers protect and prepare their people and assets during a weather emergency. Here’s a few examples for how each can be used:

• Automated NWS Weather Alerts – You can inform users with push notifications containing weather updates directly from NWS in near real-time. Your notification can include an optional audio, image, and text information about the flood. In addition, you can also solicit feedback from your recipients with pre-canned acknowledgement options to confirm their safety and well-being.

• Panic Buttons – Panic buttons are commonly deployed in hotels, offices, school dorm hallways, and more. They’re a useful tool that can be used to request assistance or warn people to evacuate because of an emergency like a flash flood. A variety of analog buttons that connect with Revolution via contact closure are used to trigger a notification for each particular situation (fire, evacuation, emergency, or lockdown).

• In-Building Paging – Broadcast live, pre-recorded or text-to-speech alerts across overhead speakers, IP phones, desktops, digital signage, and more to quickly inform people about a flood located in the area of where the business sits.

• Response Check-Ins – Response check-ins allow recipients to acknowledge or respond to your Revolution notifications using a supported device such as an IP phone, desktop notification, or mobile alert. You can use response options as a check-in from your end users in emergency scenarios like a flood. For example, you could send out an emergency notification that asks recipients “Do you need assistance?” (perhaps after a flood) and the recipients can then respond.

• Revolution Mobile App – Empowering people with timely information can save lives during a flood. Revolution Mobile is an app that provides emergency alerts with mass notification software directly to your recipients’ mobile devices (iOS & Android). This technology gives you the ability to alert users wherever they may be located. Revolution Mobile also supports geofencing so you can rest assured that you’re sending relevant alerts about the natural disaster based on the user’s current location.


To learn more about how Revolution can help prepare your organization and its people, contact us online by visiting www.syn-apps.com/contact-us or by phone at 1-866-664-6071. For more information about Spring and Flood Safety Month, visit this website www.ready.gov/floods.