Safety App Of The Week

September 1, 2015 No Comments

Below is this week’s “Safety App of the Week“.  Every Monday we publish an article that reviews and rates a new workplace safety app.  Our testing is done on Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s.  We rate each app from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best).  Prior app of the week articles are archived here.

In Case of Crisis – Corporate

Official Description  

“In Case of Crisis is an award-winning mobile solution that helps institutions and their safety professionals’ better care for the well-being of their people by offering easy and secure access to institutional-specific emergency procedures, safety guidelines and business continuity plans. The app allows you to replace your paper flipbooks, and internet hosted sites that are hard to reach when you need them during a crisis. Using In Case of Crisis is safe and secure, and enables employees to communicate with each other more effectively during a crisis, whether it’s an alert, incident report, or a conference call. The content in this app can be customized and branded for your organization.

App Features
Securely access your organization’s emergency and business continuity electronic flipbooks
Assign the content by user role or location so each employee gets what they need
Receive Notices from your organization in seconds and stay current with a crisis
– Enjoy interactive content including; maps, diagrams and checklists
– Easily report an incident, claim and more with the inbound form capability

The In Case of Crisis app is free of charge to users to download and view crisis plans“¹

 

Thumbs Up

• cost is free
• numerous generic crisis plan samples are offered
• crisis plans from actual companies are available too
• most plans are pretty good quality

 

Thumbs Down

• no photos  &  few/poor-quality graphics
• can not modify or even email the sample crisis plans that you like
• many company specific crisis plans are password protected

Overall Rating

• iPad / iPhone  –  ♥♥♥♥
• Android –  ♥♥♥♥
• Overall – a good source to obtain sample crisis plans for your company

¹ Description courtesy of  iTunes

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