Envoy Adds New Emergency Notifications Features to Boost Workplace Safety and Compliance

August 07, 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT

New capabilities help companies confirm employee safety and elevate emergency response strategies across every workplace

Envoy, a workplace technology organization that makes it simple to run secure, compliant, and connected workplaces across every location, today announced new features for Emergency Notifications. The update adds proactive safety communication and anomaly detection capabilities that help organizations better prepare for emergencies, reduce response times and meet compliance requirements across distributed workplaces.

The launch comes at a time of escalating climate and safety threats. In 2024, both the total number of U.S. wildfires and acres burned exceeded the five- and 10-year national averages. Meanwhile, 2025 is shaping up to be the country’s most active tornado season in over 14 years. These growing threats underscore the need for smarter, faster and more coordinated emergency response systems.

Despite rising concerns around employee safety and regulatory accountability, many organizations still rely on manual, fragmented protocols that slow down response and add compliance risk across teams and locations. This creates dangerous blind spots, from missed alerts and delayed responses to incomplete compliance records. Envoy Emergency Notifications addresses these gaps as part of a centralized, real-time platform that unifies alerting, visibility and logging for today’s complex work environments.

“No matter the workplace, emergency response strategies are a necessity, not a luxury,” said Cormac Twomey, CTO of Envoy. “We’re raising the bar on what companies should expect from their safety systems. This update gives every workplace the power to act faster, stay compliant, and protect their people with confidence before, during, and after a crisis.”

Smarter Emergency Response Starts Here

New features for Emergency Notifications build on Envoy’s commitment to helping companies move from reactive protocols to proactive, coordinated safety practices. Updates include:

Real-time alerts with read receipts: Tracks who received, opened, and responded to critical messages.
Two-way check-ins: Let employees confirm their safety or request help with just a tap.
Command center dashboards: Manage live alerts and analyze trends across every location in real time.
Emergency signage takeovers: Instantly display interactive maps and exit routes across digital signage.
Audit-ready communication logs: Keep detailed records of every alert and response to support compliance.
Run drills and test your plan: Leverage practice alert templates, identify gaps, and refine your response before a real emergency.
Surface weather-related risks: In California, admins can receive severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service and choose whether to forward them to employees, with national coverage to come.

Envoy streamlines these features into a single, scalable platform along with other essential workplace management features that reduce manual operations, increase visitor hospitality and ensure audit-ready compliance and the protection of people, places and IP. To further support employee safety, Emergency Notifications provides companies with a reliable way to communicate during crises.

“Envoy’s product is so robust,” said Erica Medeiros, Senior Manager of Workplace at Iterable. “It’s not just visitor tracking. It’s not just occupancy tracking. It’s not just emergency notifications. It’s everything, and we need it all.”

To learn more about Emergency Notifications, visit envoy.com/products/emergency-notifications.

About Envoy

Envoy builds workspace management technology that makes it simple to run secure, compliant, and connected workplaces across every location. Over 16,000 workplaces and properties around the world rely on Envoy to create great experiences for employees and visitors while meeting safety, security, and compliance needs at scale. From corporate headquarters and labs to manufacturing sites, Envoy powers the places where people work best together.

Learn more at envoy.com