A method for managing the assistance to a person in response to the emission of an alert includes emitting an alert from a piece of mobile equipment of a first user to a plurality of users; establishing a first two-way communication between the first equipment and a given terminal of the first set of an assisting user; automatic generating of a plurality of first notifications to a subset of terminals of the first set, each one of the notifications including at least one piece of data that identifies the assisting user; automatic generating of a plurality of second notifications to the second subset, each second notification including a status relative to the processing of the alert by the assisting user.