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News from Safeguard Communications:

2011 - ALL NEWS COVERAGE AND EVENT INFORMATION -

CORNWALL COUNCIL SELECTS ALERT CASCADE FOR ITS EASE OF USE - Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

After an extensive evaluation process, the Safeguard Communications solution clearly surpassed competing mass notification systems. Alert Cascade represents good value for money and was the easiest to use of the systems evaluated by the Council.

EMIRATES AIRLINE SELECTS ALERT CASCADE FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION - Thursday, 28th July 2011

With a fleet of 137 aircraft and flights to over 100 destinations in 60 countries around the world, Emirates has today selected Safeguard Communications as its Emergency Notification Provider. Safeguard's web-based notification software, Alert Casacade Emergency Notification Service, will help Emirates maintain business continuity during critical and routine situations alike by quickly sharing information between their worldwide offices. The technology automatically distributes critical messages to management, employees and other emergency teams and gathers all-important feedback, vital to quick and appropriate response, regardless of their geographical location.

SAFEGUARD TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES - Wednesday, 29th June 2011

Safeguard has been commissioned and is proud to provide Alert Cascade its easy to use, resilient emergency notification service that will be used to deliver high speed, targeted messages to select NHS Hospitals, NHS Teams and key Olympic Security Directorate individuals. This project will ensure that arrangements are in place to provide a "one to many" communication platform for the duration of the Games by replacing existing manual call trees with automated notification messaging capabilities and procedures to take into account the unique circumstances of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FOR LONDON BOROUGH OF REDBRIDGE STAFF & RESIDENTS - Tuesday, 22nd February 2011

RedMIP is an example of how the London Borough of Redbridge is working in partnership with local residents to reduce the impact of disasters within the Borough. Safeguard is proud to be providing "high availability" phone-in voice noticeboards that allow London Borough of Redbridge to leave emergency messages for staff and local residents that help support the Council and its obligations as Category One Responders under the Civil Contingency Act 2004. www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/crime_and_public_safety.aspx

LEADING INSURANCE GROUP SELECTS ALERT CASCADE TO AUTOMATE STAFF NOTIFICATIONS - Friday, 15th January 2011

One of the UK's leading and oldest established Insurance Underwriters who trade as a Lloyds Syndicate selected Alert Cascade Emergency Notification Service to replace the Groups previous manual Staff call cascade messaging processes.

UK'S FASTEST RISING STOCKBROKER SELECTS THE UK'S FASTEST RISING NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - Tuesday, 3rd August 2010

Corporate and institutional stockbroker and investment bank, Panmure Gordon & Co has taken a proactive approach to providing the best possible multi-modal emergency notification coverage to its UK employees. The firm has selected Alert Cascade, the UK's fastest rising Emergency Notification Service. Panmure Gordon achieved the fastest rising firm 2010 status from this year's ThomsonReuters Extel Survey, UK Small Caps.

ABP CHOOSE ALERT CASCADE FOR ITS SPEED AND SIMPLICITY - Friday, 26th March 2010

Associated British Ports (ABP) the UK's largest ports group have chosen Alert Cascade Emergency Notification Service to replace their existing system at the Port of Immingham. Together with its sister Port of Grimsby, Immingham is the UK's largest port by tonnage. ABP's Safety Manager says of Alert Cascade, "We are impressed by its immediate message broadcast capability to notify all of our staff and site tenants simultaneously, which is much faster than our previous alert system. In a real emergency this will no doubt save us valuable time. We also like the integrated emergency information hot-line feature plus the user friendliness and layout.

EUROPEAN BANK INVESTS IN ALERT CASCADE FOR CRISIS MESSAGING - Friday, 26th March 2010

One of Europe's leading Investment Banks, operating in over 30 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, has today signed up to a three year Alert Cascade Emergency Notification Service agreement.

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY TAKES NOTIFICATION TO THE NEXT DEGREE - Tuesday, 16th February 2010

The University of Lancaster has implemented Alert Cascade Emergency Notification Service to automate the management of critical alerts and warnings.

ALERT CASCADE ENS WEATHERS THE STORM - Wednesday, 3rd February 2010

Britain faced one of the coldest winters in 100 years, with conditions causing "widespread, persistent and severe" problems. The harsh winter weather paralyzed Britain and parts of Europe, frustrating air travelers, stranding motorists and keeping thousands from their jobs and schools. At Safeguard we had to weather our own storm as we experienced the highest number of outbound emergency notification voice and text message requests for a single month with no loss of operating telephony, internet administration, server connectivity or delays in message transmission.

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION SAFEGUARDS THE WELFARE OF ITS STAFF - Friday, 28th August 2009

Safeguard is delighted and proud to announce The Royal British Legion (RBL) as the latest user of Alert Cascade ENS, the UK's fastest growing Emergency Notification Service. RBL is one of the UK's leading charities and provides financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces. RBL will use Alert Cascade to improve communication with its staff, trustees and suppliers in emergency situations, should they arise.

UEFA SIGNS UP CRISIS COMMANDER - Thursday, 13th August 2009

Crisis Commander has been signed up to provide a web based Emergency Operations Centre during UEFA's new European club football competition the Europa League, plus all of UEFA's other European football competitions. Crisis Commander will be deployed at every match until the end of the 2011-12 competitions enabling UEFA to communicate, collaborate and facilitate fast, effective and consistent decision making by all those responsible for managing and containing any incident or emergency situation that may occur.

CRISIS COMMANDER WINS PRESTIGIOUS BCM AWARD - Thursday, 28th May 2009

Crisis Commander has been named the Most Innovative Solution of the Year 2009 at the prestigious Business Continuity Awards, The long-running annual event is organized by CIR magazine to recognise excellence within the field of business continuity and operational risk management. The presentation of this year's awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on the 27th May. "Winning the Most Innovative Solution of the Year Award was a proud moment for the company and is a great endorsement for the Crisis Commander product" said Safeguard Director, Russell Pearson, "there were a number of very good products shortlisted and for Crisis Commander to be summarised as one of the most important and innovative tools in the industry was tremendous recognition for the work that's been carried out over the last twelve months by the Safeguard team. Furthermore thanks must be given to all of our customers for their continued support, plus a special thank you goes to our customers who nominated the product for the award".

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS - OPEN EVENING - Thursday, 5th March 2009

Safeguard participates at the "Emergency Communications as the Foundation of Good Crisis Management - How to Get it Right" Open Evening at the Army and Navy Club, St. James's Square, hosted by Londons leading Business Continuity Consultancy Needhams 1834.

CRISIS COMMANDER TO HELP MAKE LONDON A SAFER CITY - Tuesday, 24th February 2009

City of London Corporation, which provides local government services for the financial and commercial heart of Britain, the 'Square Mile', has implemented new contingency and continuity planning software at its Emergency Planning Department in London.

The implementation of the new software is a critical step towards a safer London. City of London's 'Safer City Partnership' is a UK-wide initiative whose current objectives include protecting people and businesses against a range of incidents, including pandemics, natural disasters, terrorism, anti-social behaviour, crime against people and economic crime. A team of officers from the City of London Corporation and City of London Police supports the work of the Safer City Partnership. The unit is located within the Security and Contingency Planning Group of the City of London.

The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is called Crisis Commander and will initially be used to manage and control the City of London Corporation's response to major incidents or any disruption within the Square Mile, such as pandemics, rail accidents, floods and power outages.

CRISIS COMMANDER STRENGTHENS THE EU'S PANDEMIC RESPONSE - Tuesday, 3rd February 2009

The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has implemented new crisis communication and contingency planning software.

ECDC is an EU agency whose aim is to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases and whose mission is to identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases.

ECDC works in partnership with international health protection bodies across Europe to strengthen and develop continent-wide disease surveillance and early warning systems and the implementation of the new software is a critical step towards a safer Europe.

The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is called Crisis Commander and will initially be used to manage and control ECDC's response to infectious diseases and pandemic threats and allow ECDC to pool Europe's health knowledge, so as to develop authoritative scientific opinions about the risks posed by current and emerging infectious diseases.

HEATHROW'S 2ND LARGEST AIRLINE IMPLEMENTS CRISIS COMMANDER - Friday, 10th January 2009

London Heathrow's second largest airline, bmi, has implemented a new integrated incident management and alert notification system at its Emergency Response Centre at London Heathrow and its Operations Control Centre at Donington Hall, Derby.

The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is called Crisis Commander and will be used by between 10 and 25 staff, to help manage and control the company's complete incident management and emergency response process.

UK'S LARGEST INSURANCE PROVIDER IMPLEMENTS CRISIS COMMANDER - Thursday, 8th January 2009

Aviva, the UK's largest insurance services provider, has signed a three year agreement with Safeguard Communications UK Limited. Aviva will be using the Crisis Commander suite of automated business continuity tools to support their internal organisational crisis response infrastructure.