UMS-Wright Prep Updates PA System for Greater Coverage of Outdoor Emergency Notifications

Outdoor public address systems are critical components of any school’s emergency notification system. Emergency messages must reach everyone on campus, including those students, faculty, and staff members who are outside on the football field, baseball diamond, picnic areas, playgrounds, and other outdoor areas. Unfortunately, PA speakers often aren’t installed in remote outdoor locations on campus. If they are installed, the announcements might not be loud enough or intelligible. The same issues often happen indoors.Such was the challenge at the UMS-Wright Preparatory School located in Mobile, Alabama. UMS-Wright Director of Campus Safety Garrett Humphrey and his team updated the PA system to not only address the old system’s coverage issues but to also make the school’s teachers less reliant on their cell phones for push notifications. He and his team went through a lengthy and thorough process to upgrade UMS-Wright’s PA system, including conducting an inventory and testing what they already had, determining the exact areas that had coverage problems. Here are the timestamps of what was specifically covered in the interview:The specific challenges UMS-Wright experienced with its PA system: 2:20 How Humphrey addressed this issue; what was installed; how he determined what was needed; and the overall process: 5:32 How the solution that was chosen achieved cost savings: 9:05 Humphrey’s advice to other school safety and security professionals about public address systems and notifying students, faculty, and staff who are outdoors during an emergency: 11:25 What Humphrey would do differently if he had to do it all over again: 13:58This presentation is brought to you by CampusSafetyMagazine.com (https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/) Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campussafety... Follow us on LinkedIn: https:/CAMPUS SAFETY SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Facebook: https://facebook.com/CampusSafetyMagazineX: https://x.com/CampusSafetyMagInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/CampusSafetyMagLinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1836305YouTube: @Campussafetymagazine