AlertSU

Last year Stanford University implemented an emergency notification system called AlertSU. This system was put in place to be able to rapidly alert all Stanford faculty, staff and students in the case of a developing emergency situation. It simultaneously uses several technologies to deliver time-sensitive emergency notifications: voice mail, e-mail and text messaging. SLAC employee office phone numbers and SLAC e-mail addresses have been included in the database from the beginning, and many of us have received phone calls and/or emails during their periodic testing.

What is changing?

As of today, SLAC subcontractors, students and visiting scientists can enter their emergency contact information into the AlertSU system via the SLAC Phone Directory Web page. Up to three phone numbers and one e-mail address can be tagged for use by the AlertSU system.

How can you be included?

Please take a few minutes to look yourself up in the SLAC Phone Directory, then press the Edit button on the dark blue line that says Optional Information (SLAC/Non-SLAC).

Non-employee SLAC affiliates can opt-in to the system by choosing up to three phone numbers and one email address and tagging them as "Alert SU" using the View drop-down menu.

What's next?

In a few weeks, SLAC employees will be able to add additional phone numbers into the AlertSU system. Eventually, SLAC emergency personnel will be able to use AlertSU to send out alerts to just SLAC, or even residents of a particular building at SLAC.