Emergency communications

Console turnover with a written record

Communications centers turn over positions continuously. Everything that changed during a shift — an outage, a workaround, a temporary procedure — has to reach the next person on the console.

The shift-change problem

Turnover in a comm center is often a thirty-second conversation between two people whose attention is already on the radio. Temporary workarounds, partial outages and active advisories are exactly the information most likely to be dropped, and the consequences land on the next caller.

What commonly gets lost

  • Active system outages and the workaround currently in use
  • Temporary routing or procedure changes
  • Position staffing and relief plans
  • Open follow-ups with field units or outside agencies
  • Recurring caller or address advisories

How Shift Relay supports the workflow

Supervisors open the shift, assign positions, publish the briefing, log outages and procedural changes as they happen, and publish a position-level handoff before relief. Unresolved items stay open across shifts until someone closes them.

Example use cases

  • Passing an active console workaround to the relieving shift in writing
  • Tracking an outage from first report through restoration across multiple shifts
  • Confirming acknowledgment of a temporary procedure change
  • Reviewing which advisories were active during a specific hour

Security considerations

Shift Relay is not a CAD or radio system and does not ingest call data. It provides organization-scoped access control, role-based permissions and audit history for the operational information your center chooses to record in it.

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Bring every shift into one secure workspace

Shift Relay is in early access for organizations that run around the clock. Tell us how your shifts change hands and we will show you the workflow end to end.