You can’t cut corners on safety. Secapp brings certainty to IONCOR’s safety management.

With Secapp, you can save someone’s life at the push of a button. This is one key reason why IONCOR adopted Secapp as part of its safety management.

IONCOR is one of Europe’s leading battery technology suppliers, manufacturing battery systems especially for industrial and transportation needs. In the battery business, production safety and fast response capability are extremely important. That’s why tools are needed to ensure information moves quickly, reliably, and to the right people. For this purpose, IONCOR has implemented Secapp to support critical communications and safety management.

HSEQ Engineer Niina Salo was involved in acquiring the system for IONCOR about three years ago, and she also serves as Secapp’s main administrator. Salo says the organization especially wanted to centralize critical communication into one efficient channel. In her view, Secapp is an excellent solution for IONCOR’s needs.

“Secapp has given us a clear and consistent way to communicate in emergency situations, practice preparedness, and ensure information flows seamlessly across the entire organization. Above all, Secapp provides peace of mind that if something happens, information moves quickly and the safety team can respond immediately,” Salo says.

In various industrial production environments, potential risks may relate to fires, chemical leaks, or electrical hazards. In such situations, the speed and clarity of communication can make a huge difference. Quick response also helps minimize material damage.

At IONCOR, Secapp primarily serves as a safety and crisis communications tool that enables information to reach the entire organization in seconds—without, for example, a chain of phone calls. The organization has built clear operating models for different situations, such as a battery fire, evacuation, or personal injury. For these, ready-made one-click buttons have been created in Secapp, allowing an alert to be sent with a single press.

“In an emergency, you press just one button, and the information—with instructions—spreads across the whole organization in seconds, from the shop floor all the way to management,” Salo says.

With Secapp, you can send a targeted alert to everyone with one press and share clear instructions at the same time. The information is always identical and real-time for everyone, with no intermediaries.

Although there have been no real incidents so far, Secapp has been an important part of the company’s safety drills and cooperation with rescue authorities. IONCOR conducts safety-related exercises annually, and Secapp is an essential tool for communication and incident management in those exercises.

Secapp’s automated reporting makes safety work more controlled and data-driven. It also saves resources. In addition to saving working time, it helps organizations reduce manual work and therefore also the risk of human error. This has also been considered important at IONCOR.

Alongside drills and communications, Secapp also helps develop safety management. When every drill or situation is recorded in the system, it’s easy to return later to what worked well and what could be improved. That’s why Secapp also greatly simplifies post-processing of deviations and exercises.

“Previously, information had to be gathered from several different sources and transcribed manually. It took a lot of time. Secapp automatically records the entire event timeline from start to finish—what happened, where, and when. You can generate a report at the push of a button, and based on it we can assess whether we need to pay more attention to some aspect of safety going forward,” Salo says.

Salo sees investing in safety above all as an investment, not an expense. In addition to saving resources—for example by automating reporting and reducing manual work—its benefits extend even further. The system’s true value shows in the fact that employees feel safe and can work with confidence.

“You can’t measure everything in money. Secapp is an inexpensive investment considering that you can save someone’s life with it,” Salo reminds.

At IONCOR, using Secapp has been made as low-threshold as possible. Using Secapp doesn’t require a specific position in the organization; everyone who works in safety-related roles knows how to use the system.

“The number of users is high relative to the total staff, which I think is an important part of safety. We’ve wanted to ensure that alerts can be made from every area and that there are always enough users in the system. Safety must not depend on just one person,” Salo notes.

When all safety communication is centralized in one place, it not only improves efficiency but also strengthens the feeling of safety. Salo’s own safety team can also trust that, in addition to them, everyone in the organization knows that if Secapp sends an alert, something has happened.

Secapp is widely used across many different industries, and Salo also sees its potential in many kinds of organizations. Even during the procurement phase, one decisive factor for IONCOR was that Secapp had convincing references from users in different fields. Salo highlights the system’s versatility as one of its strengths.

Salo recommends Secapp for practically any industry—whether it’s industrial environments, campus areas, healthcare, or other fields where, for example, people work alone.

“As a safety professional, above all I see in Secapp the possibility that it can help save someone’s life,” Salo summarizes.

Why Secapp is worth implementing

• Information doesn’t pass through multiple channels or intermediaries; there is one clear and secure communication channel for the entire organization.
• Alerts and instructions are sent in seconds with a single push of a button.
• Automatic reporting saves resources and time, since information doesn’t need to be manually compiled from different places.
• A low-threshold system for everyone working in safety roles.
• An inexpensive investment considering it can help save someone’s life.