Stay informed with emergency messages delivered to your cellphone
In the event of a real campus crisis, emergency messages will be delivered to all registered users via SMS text messages. Several thousand students and staff are currently signed-up for the University's Siemens Sygnal Alert service.
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As part of Friday’s emergency notification systems test, the University will also be testing McMaster’s Emergency Mass Notification System with a SMS text message to all subscribers.
Security Services is now using the Send Word Now system to communicate emergency notification for all students and staff.
Prior to the Jan. 30 drill, which is scheduled to begin at 10:20 a.m., current students and staff are encouraged to sign up for the University’s Emergency Mass Notification system. New users can register here.
Students who wish to receive notifications must “opt-in” via their profile under MUGSI, by providing a mobile phone number and/or mobile email address under the “Emergency Mass Notification” menu. Students are responsible for updating information as it changes.
Staff who wish to receive notifications must “opt-in” by logging into the UTS Contact Information Self Update.
In the event of a real campus crisis, emergency messages will be delivered to all registered users via SMS text messages. Several thousand students and staff are currently signed-up for the service.
Security Services operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the University’s new Communications Centre, located in the E.T. Clarke Building. The Communications Centre integrates a number of new technologies, including a large video display screen and integrated security system management software, and is home to dispatch staff who answer calls and monitor campus alarms.
Read: McMaster will test its emergency notification systems Jan. 30
