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SYSTEME AVERTISSEMENT PYRAMIDAL URGENCE [2 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2015-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Key term(s)
  • Fanout System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology
  • Emergency Management
DEF

A warning system used within an organization, based on its members reaching others by telephone according to a prepared "pyramidal" plan where each one telephones two or more other members.

CONT

Emergency personnel can be called up in several ways. For example, a telephone fan-out system can be used, in which person A calls persons B and C, B calls D and E, C calls F and G, and so on.

OBS

telephone fanout: term officially recognized by the Emergency Preparedness Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Système d'alerte utilisé au sein d'un organisme, par lequel chaque membre téléphone aux autres selon un plan pyramidal préétabli où il est prévu qu'une personne en appellera au moins deux autres.

OBS

chaîne téléphonique : terme adopté par le Comité d'uniformisation de la protection civile.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telecomunicaciones
  • Telefonía y tecnología de microondas
  • Gestión de emergencias
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