Wärtsilä’s global approach to travel safety and incident management

Discover how Wärtsilä, a leader in innovative lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy sectors, ensures the safety of its business travelers worldwide. Learn about their partnership with Everbridge to provide real-time incident alerts, mass notifications, and seamless support in high-risk locations.

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I’m Jouni Laiho, Corporate security director for Wärtsilä. And Wärtsilä is the producer of innovative lifecycle solutions empowering the marine and energy sectors. Originally we had a need to implement one global solution and the related processes to support our business travelers wherever they are and whenever they need support.

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Covering both travel, medical and security incidents handling and of course everything that relates to business traveling, keeping our employees, safe. The number one for us was the ability to provide an easy solution for our business travelers.

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We are present in very many high and extreme risk locations, on the planet. Hence it’s very important that our business travelers, they are informed pre, during and sometimes even after the business trip.

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And they need to have an easy solution how to contact in case questions or need, for help. The main benefits, are stemming from the automated incident alerts.

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So ie: essentially the information that Everbridge provides, towards our employees, and then also, it’s very important for us to have the capability when needed, to understand where our business travelers are, send them mass notification messages when needed and to track in case they have a need to be supported and helped.