Alarm plan
An alarm plan is a set regulation that describes what should happen in the event of a defined (damage) event that is to be expected.
It takes effect as soon as an alarm is triggered. Various scenarios after an incident serve as the basis for an alarm plan. The form of an alarm plan naturally differentiates whether it is a small incident with a local limitation and / or little damage to the population or property, or whether it is a large-scale disaster . A distinction is also made as to whether the events are of natural origin or whether they were triggered by humans. An alarm or warning signal may have to be passed on to other people and units so that a so-called alarm chain is formed.
An alarm plan can also affect different groups of people:
- An incident in a company can affect some employees.
- A criminal incident rarely affects whole population groups, but often only specific police departments .
- A separate alarm and security plan applies to prisons.
- The triggering of a fire alarm triggers an alarm for a fire brigade , which will then deploy according to a specific alarm plan as required. If it is only a small fire, the fire brigade will go to the scene of the incident according to the alarm and deployment rules . However, if the fire is bigger, the responsible fire brigade also alerts the neighboring fire brigade and an alarm chain is created.
- In every municipality there are disaster control plans , which again depend on the scenarios. In earthquake-prone areas, this will look different than for flood protection .
It is important that an alarm plan is alive, constantly revised and read regularly by the people concerned. Larger events in particular are used as an opportunity to complete the individual points. An example of this would be the nuclear reactor accident in Chernobyl in 1986 or the flood of the century in 2002 .