Hey gang,

Happy (and safe) 4th to all.

I have a question for those of you in hospitals or other institutions/buildings frequented by the public.

In a Virginia Tech type situation, how does your business announce or handle a lockdown situation (or do they even have a plan for such).

I'm wanting ideas to approach my Emergency Management Team with for my hospital. The option of announcing a "lockdown" overhead is frowned upon for fear of inciting a panic and having more people fleeing into the line of fire.

There are a series of overhead paged codes that the facility has and has modified in order to be more in sync with the other area hospitals (make sure we're all speaking the same language), but doesn't cover that sort of incident.