Alerts

Introduction to Alerts

Alerts are incident reports regarding health, safety, security, and travel-related events to help people stay safe by mitigating risks. Safeture’s Risk Intelligence Content Suppliers cover various incidents, such as political developments, crime, disease outbreaks, and terrorism. Their experienced risk intelligence analysts verify and assess information before issuing an alert when an incident occurs.

Alerts can be distributed in several different ways: through the Safeture mobile app, in the web portal’s alert feed, or email.

Alert Risk Assessment Methodology

All alerts published on the Safeture platform are assigned a risk level—low, medium, or high. Each alert is also categorized into one or more alert risk categories, depending on the content provider.

Please note: The risk levels and risk categories used for the alert risk assessments, are different from the methodology used for the country risk assessment. Alert risk assessment methodology also differs depending on chosen Risk Intelligence provider.

Define the impact radius

After an incident is detected, the analysts assign it an impact radius, i.e., the geographical area impacted by the incident. This is based on the type of the incident. For instance, a shooting is seen as a local incident while an earthquake might have a region wide effect.

Risk level and risk category

The analysts assign a risk level to the incident before publishing it as an alert. The alert can have one of three risk levels; low, medium, or high. To describe the type of incident that has occurred, the alert will have one or more risk categories assigned.

Alert Risk Levels

Low: Information that may be good to know, such as public transport disturbances, minor demonstrations, or updates to previous alerts.

Medium: Incidents or threats that have recently occurred or may occur in the coming days and present some security risks.

High: Immediate and serious threats to safety and/or health.