{"id":101268,"date":"2025-05-05T12:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=101268"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:19","slug":"mass-notification-system-test-planned-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/05\/mass-notification-system-test-planned-for-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Notification System test planned for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is joining communities and organizations across Canada in marking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getprepared.gc.ca\/cnt\/rsrcs\/ep-wk\/index-en.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Preparedness Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The national initiative, which runs from Sunday, May 4 to Saturday, May 10, aims to raise awareness and share resources to help individuals and communities prepare for emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its emergency preparedness efforts, Brock will conduct a full-scale test of the Mass Notification System on the evening of Saturday, May 10.<\/p>\n<p>This system can broadcast urgent messages across all Brock network computer screens, electronic message boards, email, voicemail extensions and social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The University is also reminding students, staff and faculty to prepare for potential emergencies by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding the risks in their communities, such as potential flooding or weather-related events. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLpJeOf_PsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be Prepared Niagara<\/a> video on YouTube shares some potential local risks and preparedness tips.<\/li>\n<li>Making plans in advance to ensure they, along with family or colleagues, can respond effectively to an emergency at home or at work.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing an emergency kit of basic supplies that would allow them to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours during an emergency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of the University community are also encouraged to download the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/apps\/\">Brock Safety App<\/a>, which contains emergency contacts and helpful links and is routinely used for sharing information, including about emergency situations.<\/p>\n<p>For more emergency preparedness information and resources, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getprepared.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getprepared.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is joining communities and organizations across Canada in marking Emergency Preparedness Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[4912,10293,8308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101294,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101268\/revisions\/101294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}