Sacramento State will conduct a test of its automated Emergency Notification System between 8 a.m.-noon, Thursday, March 5.
The exercise will test the campus’ Emergency Notification System, known as ENS. The notification system automates delivery of urgent announcements to large groups of people such as students, faculty and staff via text, voice and e-mail broadcasts.
Faculty, staff and students who are not signed up to receive text messages may at www.csus.edu/ens. Those who sign up by 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 4 may receive the test message on their cell phone.
During the ENS test, faculty, staff and students who have signed up to receive text messages will receive a text message that a test is being conducted.
The test is a simulation of the communication system that can be triggered in the event of an emergency, in which a text alert, a voice mail alert and an e-mail message may be sent in succession.
The alerts would only be used in the event of an emergency that threatened the campus community’s health and safety, as well as provide protective action recommendations. Examples of such events would be a campus shooting, bomb threat, hazardous materials spills, flood or fire.
In the event of an actual emergency, Public Safety may send a text message, pre-written for a variety of emergency scenarios. A follow-up e-mail can be sent thereafter, with more specific details of the event and safety procedures, and an all-clear message sent upon incident resolution. The community will also be alerted to visit the campus’ homepage, www.csus.edu, for more information.
For more information on the ENS test, contact 278-1600.
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Sacramento State’s Kim Nava can be reached at navak@csus.edu
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