Employees are increasingly going to dark parking lots after long days due to the return to standard time and shorter winter days. The result is that office building owners face a difficult task: keeping the buildings safe and secure.

Modern offenders are more sophisticated than ever. Therefore, it is important to plan for different situations and use effective procedures to ensure that employees are safe.

Many experts still find gaps in safety procedures and guidelines, especially when it is about communicating with building occupants or emergency responders.

Building managers are adopting an innovative alert system, the Immediate Response Information System (IRIS), because it is possible for communication lines to be lost in an emergency.

TechRadium’s IRIS system is a high-speed, state of the art, high-speed emergency response system. It can send emergency messages to thousands of people at one time. It sends messages to building managers, emergency responders and occupants. The system transmits the alert via a variety of commonly used electronic devices, including cell phones and cell phones as well as e-mail accounts, pagers, PDAs, fax machines, and fax machines.

Employees have the option to take additional steps to safeguard themselves beyond office technology.

* Try to walk to and from your car with someone else, especially if it is dark out.

* Stay focused and alert for anything out of the ordinary by refraining from talking on your cell phone or listening to music until you are safely in your car or at your destination.

* Have your keys out and your hands free. This will help you save time when you get to your car.

* Be mindful of where you park in the morning or earlier in the day, and consider whether it will be a safe location to walk to in the dark.

* Try to stay in areas near lights and pedestrian traffic.

* Program emergency response phone numbers into your cell phone in case of an emergency.

* Ask about emergency response systems such as IRIS that are used by your place of employment.

You can find more information on IRIS at www.iris.org www.useiris.comCall 866-370-0120.