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This isn't an argument with your overall point. But your second sentence isn't quite right: "This is not a drill" is part of the alert message itself. If it is
by scrumper 9y ago
This isn't an argument with your overall point. But your second sentence isn't quite right: "This is not a drill" is part of the alert message itself. If it is a drill, the instruction to issue the alert is prefaced with "EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE." This is from a thing I read yesterday that I can't find now, so I can't back it up I'm afraid. But you see that it isn't quite as you think.
(The UX of the system we all saw was truly terrible, but this employee had a track record of making similar mistakes.)
- FireBeyond 9y agoYes. Or similar. In Fire / EMS, we do training exercises and for anything involving detailed communications any "block" of radio interactions is both started and finished with "This is a training exercise". It's not done with every communication because that would be onerous but each block (typically managed by Dispatch, rather than field personnel). This avoids War of the Worlds style issues too, as our radio traffic is not encrypted and available on scanners.