Families Could Have Been Notified Much Sooner

When the Continental Airline jet flying from Rio de Janeiro to Houston experienced severe turbulence, something as simple as wearing a seatbelt would have prevented dozens of people from being injured. When passengers were taken to a Miami hospital after an unplanned, emergency landing, EverybodySafe.com could have prevented worry and confusion among these passengers’ families.

If you are as severely injured as some of these passengers were, you are not in a state to communicate how to contact your family.  How are your loved ones supposed to know that you’re injured and in a hospital hundreds of miles away from where you’re supposed to be?

Many people are under the assumption that there is a special database of contact information for hospitals to pull from so that they can contact family in case of an emergency. In reality, hospital staff will not look through your cell phone or spend time searching the internet for whom to call.

EverybodySafe.com uses e-mail, text messaging and phone calls to make sure that everyone who needs to know will be informed in case of emergency. When you sign up, you’ll receive ID cards, stickers and dog tags with your EverybodySafe.com ID number. Hospital staff and emergency workers simply call the 800-number or log on to the Web site, and EverybodySafe.com will contact everyone on your list to let them know where you are and what’s wrong.

For the rest of the passengers on the flight who were not injured, EverybodySafe.com also offers an ‘I’m OK’ feature, where with the push of a button you can let your loved ones know that you are safe.