News Release

Millersville University Launches Cooper Notification’s Integrated Emergency Notification Solutions

SARASOTA, Fla., August 3, 2009 – As deadlines approach to comply with federal laws on emergency notification, Cooper Notification, a platform of Cooper Industries, Ltd., (NYSE:CBE) announced today that Millersville University, located in Millersville, Pa. with approximately 8,000 students, launched its integrated and multi-layered Mass Notification System (MNS) in order to accelerate and simplify the university’s notification process.

“At Millersville, we put together a security team to assess our emergency notification needs,” said Millersville University’s Chief of Police Wayne Silcox. “Our internal team, including Information Technology, Environmental Health and Safety, and the University Police Department, understood that we needed a multi-tiered notification system to get to where we are now - our goal of preparedness excellence.”

Added Patrick Weidinger, Director, Safety & Environment Health, Millersville University, “Reliance on just one form of notification will invariably not reach enough stake holders to achieve a ‘critical mass’ notification. It’s best to use a combination of technologies.  However, in an emergency, activating multiple communications systems can slow you down, not allowing you to focus on the actual emergency.  We needed a system that allows you to use one simple-to-use interface to launch our different notification channels.”

Instead of utilizing separate systems to notify the entire campus or segments of the campus community, Millersville University chose Cooper Notification’s integrated mass notification system solution. The University, which already utilizes Cooper Notification’s WAVES for broadcasting messages over wide outdoor areas, switched their campus text message and emergency email alert system provider to Cooper Notification’s U.S. patented Roam Secure Alert Network™ (RSAN™).  University officials can now activate their email, text messaging and outdoor “Giant Voice” speakers from one user-interface.

“Our MU Alert, powered by RSAN, allows more users and better administration tools,” said Weidinger.  “The new RSAN system uses priority communication lines, minimizing the chance for dropped or delayed text messages and emails reaching users.”

Just in time for the fall semester, Millersville University launched their web-based RSAN systems, MU Alert, to the campus community.  Students can sign up for MU Alert for free at http://mualert.millersville.edu/. Parents, alumni and friends of the university can also sign up for RSAN at no charge by visiting the web site.

Last week, Millersville University conducted an Emergency Response Active Shooter drill at the Dilworth Building. The drill utilized the RSAN system, University Telecommunications, the Millersville Borough Police, and staff from Environmental Health and Safety. “RSAN proved its worth many times over by providing a timely warning and updates as appropriate during the drill,” said Chief Silcox.  “Use of the Dilworth User Group allowed the system to be utilized without sending out messages to the entire campus community.”

For outdoor notification, Cooper Notification installed three WAVES High Power Speaker Arrays (HPSAs) and an Integrated Speaker Unit last summer on the Millersville University campus for exterior voice alerting, providing emergency notification to the 250-acre academic campus. In an emergency, the HPSAs will broadcast a siren alert, followed by a live or recorded voice message tailored to the situation. The intrusive system sends out the emergency messages in real time and has the capability of alerting the entire campus or individual areas depending on the scope of the emergency.

“We are pleased Millersville University has taken this important step in strengthening and improving emergency notification capabilities for their campus community with an integrated and interoperable solution,” said Robert Johnson, Vice President System Sales, Cooper Notification. “And we are proud to partner with The Protection Bureau on this important life safety project.”  The Protection Bureau, located in Exton, PA and one of the largest security system integrators in the Mid-Atlantic Region, is one of Cooper Notification’s MNS Channel Partners.

“The campus team, now about three years old, never felt we had to re-invent the wheel when we found ourselves working with such experienced professionals as Cooper Notification and The Protection Bureau,” added Chief Silcox. “Support of the team effort has been consistent from the president of Millersville and her cabinet through to our faculty, staff, and students.”

Cooper Notification: Delivering Critical Alerts when it Matters Most
Cooper Notification, the industry’s most comprehensive, multi-layered Mass Notification System provider, provides critical, campus-wide emergency communications for universities across the U.S., including George Mason University, University of New Hampshire, several University of Maryland campuses, University of Southern California, and University of Texas San Antonio and El Paso.  With approximately 500 MNS installations around the globe, other installations include U.S. military sites; major metropolitan areas such as Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco; state and federal agencies; airports; and hospitals. Integrated with one simple-to-use interface, Cooper Notification's reliable and effective MNS solutions allow emergency officials to send event-specific instructions to multiple communication channels, including voice-sirens, indoor and outdoor speakers, digital signage, text messaging/SMS alerting, automated dialing systems, desktop alerts, and email notifications. These systems play an important role in emergency alerting and information sharing among government leadership, first responders, critical infrastructure providers, businesses and citizens.

Editor’s Note: For additional information regarding Cooper Industries’ commitment to Safety and Notification solutions, contact Mark Doheny at (713) 209-8484 or mark.doheny@cooperindustries.com

About The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)
The HEOA (Public Law 110-315) was signed by the President and enacted on August 14, 2008. As it relates to emergency notification, the law requires higher education institutions to immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation, involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus.

About Millersville University
Founded as a beacon of academic opportunity over 150 years ago, today’s Millersville University is one of the most highly regarded public universities in its region of the United States. Millersville is one of 14 universities in the PA State System of Higher Education with an enrollment of 8,000 students and 600 faculty members. As an academic institution, Millersville University has earned its place among U.S. News & World Report's top 10 public universities in the North and is recognized for its academic excellence in Martin Nemko's book, How to Get an Ivy League Education at a State University.

About Cooper Notification
Cooper Notification, a solution platform of The Cooper Safety Division, is comprised of several businesses with decades of experience and innovation in the development of high quality products and solutions.  With the ever present need to protect, alert and inform, Cooper Notification is focused on meeting the growing demand for personnel and property safety. We are the source for notification solutions supporting Fire, Security, Hazardous area, Mass Notification, Voice evacuation and Industrial Signaling applications and operating under the powerful global brands of Fulleon, MEDC, Roam Secure, SAFEPATH, WAVES and Wheelock.  For more information, visit the web site at www.coopernotification.com.

About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries, Ltd. (NYSE: CBE) is a global manufacturer with 2008 revenues of $6.5 billion, approximately 88 percent of which are from electrical products.  Founded in 1833, Cooper's sustained level of success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation, evolving business practices while maintaining the highest ethical standards, and meeting customer needs.  The Company has eight operating divisions with leading market share positions and world-class products and brands including: Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products.  With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety.  In 2008, 61 percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and 37 percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States.  Cooper, which has manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2008, is incorporated in Bermuda with administrative headquarters in Houston, TX.  For more information, visit the web site at www.cooperindustries.com.

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