Phone chain
A telephone chain is an organizational grouping by telephone . A participant calls one or more additional participants according to a previously agreed sequence, so that a large number of participants can be reached with little effort by the individual. This allows short-term information to be disseminated quickly.
A corresponding telephone number list is usually used as the basis, e.g. B. in the form of a personal address book .
The participants in a chain usually also agree on what to do if an individual participant cannot be reached (e.g. call the next but one participant, emergency call, etc.)
Application examples
Telephone chains are also used for general contact, e.g. B. among people living alone . There are telephone chains among the elderly where the participants make regular calls to check that everyone is well.
Telephone chains are z. B. also used by the parents of school classes , for example to pass on information during class trips or missed lessons (in this context referred to as class alarm in Switzerland ).
An important form of the telephone chain is the alarm chain , in which it is determined who is to be informed by whom in the event of an alarm and in which order.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Andreae: EXPRESS Pflegewissen Altenpflege , Georg Thieme Verlag 2009, p. 82