Purpose
1.2. Automate reminders to prompt staff to review and update their emergency contacts regularly.
1.3. Reduce HR manual effort, improve response capacity during incidents, and meet legal or insurance audit standards.
1.4. Track staff completion status for updates and notify HR of overdue responses.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Change in employment status or detected update window (e.g., employee profile change).
2.3. Manual HR request for mass update following policy review or incident.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Messaging API — configure flow to send auto-reminder SMS with survey link to staff numbers.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Email API — set automated campaign to deliver templated reminders, include secure profile update link.
3.3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Bot notifications — use workflows to ping staff via channel or DM and track reactions/completions.
3.4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Adaptive Cards — set scheduled reminder post with embedded acknowledgment button captured in Teams.
3.5. Google Workspace (Gmail/Calendar)
• Feature/Setting: Automated calendar invites — set repeat reminders on staff calendars, email follow-ups via Apps Script.
3.6. BambooHR
• Feature/Setting: Webhooks/API — trigger ‘update emergency contact’ request and pull response status for each employee.
3.7. Workday
• Feature/Setting: Business Process Framework — configure a scheduled review step for emergency contact fields in HR module.
3.8. Zoho People
• Feature/Setting: Custom Workflow — create scheduled task for periodic reminder email/SMS and auto-log staff actions.
3.9. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automations — set up timeline-based notifications for contact update task with status tracking.
3.10. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Script Block — auto-filter staff overdue for update and email personalized reminders from record data.
3.11. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Process Builder — set emergency contact ‘review interval’ trigger and automated chatter/email reminder.
3.12. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Automation — schedule regular task assignment/email prompt for staff with update link.
3.13. Zoho CRM
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled Function — batch send reminders and log completions in employee profile fields.
3.14. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Recurrence Trigger — invoke updates across Office 365 users, email, or Teams per set interval.
3.15. Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: Automated Campaign — segmented list for staff with workflow to repeat reminder emails at intervals.
3.16. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Task Rules — create repeating tasks for emergency info review, auto-notify responsible user/group.
3.17. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Database & Reminder Integration — update request reminders with status check for each staff entry.
3.18. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Butler Automation — autopopulate card for each staff with due dates and periodic nudge comments.
3.19. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Notification API — send push/SMS reminders to on-call staff, escalate unresponsive cases.
3.20. Google Forms
• Feature/Setting: Response Triggers — email staff a prefilled form link, set notification on submission for HR team.
Benefits
4.2. Ensures regulatory compliance and audit readiness via up-to-date records.
4.3. Supports employee safety — accurate contacts accelerate emergency response.
4.4. Automatic escalation of overdue updates prevents missing data and supports policy enforcement.
4.5. Uniform experience across different comms/HR platforms, maximizing participation.