, and any medications you may need.
How You Will Be Notified
Navy Installations (worldwide) use the WAAN as an effective and reliable mass notification system to maximize the potential to warn and direct affected personnel during a crisis through multiple systems:
- Giant Voice (GV)—A voice announcing system using exterior speakers, commonly termed "Giant Voice"
- Interior Voice (IV)—Interior speakers or sirens
- Residential route alerting—messages announced from vehicles with loudspeakers
- Computer Desktop Notification System (CDNS)—An administrative broadcast across Navy computer networks that overrides current applications, thereby reaching all Navy users almost instantly
- Automated Telephone Notification System (ATNS)—Interactive, community notification systems capable of providing voice and/or data messages to multiple receivers-telephones, cellular phones, email, SMS (Text), etc.
(Any and all may be used by your particular installation.)
NOTE: ATNS is only as effective as the data provided in the WAAN-Navy can't alert you, if they can't find you!
Information also may be passed by Word of Mouth. In a lockdown situation, speed is of the essence.
"Pass the word" to anyone with whom you come in contact.
What to Do During a Lockdown
- Follow instructions of officials.
- Remain calm, and do not pull or respond to the fire alarm unless instructed to do so by official, law enforcement personnel.
- If not in your typical surroundings, seek refuge in a building or room that locks.
- Lock all doors and windows. Barricade the door, if possible, and do so quickly.
- Turn off all lights.
- If safe to do so, turn off gas and electric appliances or equipment.
- STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOORS AND WINDOWS, and find a hiding place that provides protection.
- Silence phones and remain quiet.
- Comfort, reassure, and quiet any companions who are nervous.
- Do not permit entry or exit to anyone until the “all clear” has been given by official personnel.
- Enact your non-verbal contact plan to provide your status and location to emergency personnel, your chain of command, and loved ones.
- If gunshots are heard, and escape is ill advised, lay on the floor, using heavy objects such as tables, desks, or filing cabinets for protection.
- If outdoors, move as far away from any building where a threat is present and enter the nearest safe building.
- If there are no buildings, lie near or hide behind trees or walls, and listen for emergency personnel instruction and/or Giant Voice alerts.
- For Active Shooter Incidents, DO NOT CALL ANY BUILDING WHERE THE INCIDENT MAY BE TAKING PLACE. Phone calls to anyone inside the building under threat may endanger them, draw undue attention toward the ring, and give away hiding locations.
- Stay in your safe area until emergency personnel has opened the door.
What to Do After a Lockdown
- Once an “all clear” has been given, you may leave your safe zone.
- Follow any instructions and answer questions from law enforcement officials.
- Be prepared to muster.
- Supervisors or designated representative should take a head count and ensure all personnel are accounted.