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MEMORANDUM
FOR: ALL NOAA EMPLOYEES
FROM:
Joseph Klimavicz
NOAA Chief Information Officer
William F. Broglie
NOAA Chief Administrative Officer
SUBJECT:
NOAA’s Emergency Notification System
To
improve NOAA’s ability to safeguard and better inform NOAA employees,
contractors, and associates about emergency events--either man-made or
natural--directly impacting NOAA facilities and operations, NOAA is
introducing the NOAA Emergency Notification System (ENS).
The
NOAA ENS, which is a system similar to those introduced by numerous
universities to manage campus-wide emergency situations, will undergo an
initial pilot starting in January 2010. The pilot will include the
National Ocean Service (NOS) staff nationally and all NOAA staff in the
National Capital Region (NCR), NOAA-wide implementation is planned for Fall
of 2010.
The
NOAA ENS relies on emergency contact information (i.e., phone and email)
voluntarily provided by each employee to disseminate emergency-event
messages. The NOAA Staff Directory (NSD) has been modified so each employee
can enter emergency contact information: cell phone (work and personal),
alternate land line numbers, email addresses. In the event of an
emergency that warrants notification requiring employee action (e.g.,
avoiding or exiting a building or complex, sheltering-in-place), the NOAA
ENS will use the contact information to send alert messages
employees. If an employee decides not to provide emergency contact
information in NSD, the NOAA ENS will send emergency messages only to the
employee’s work email and work phone number already contained in NSD.
Obviously, for the NOAA ENS to be most effective, having alternate phone
and email information from an employee is important.
A
new page within NSD that allows NOAA staff to voluntarily provide alternate
emergency contact information is now available. The information
entered on this page can only be viewed by the employee who entered
it and will only be used by the automated NOAA ENS during an
emergency. You are encouraged to update your profile at the NSD
located at: https://nsd.rdc.noaa.gov/nsd/moreinfo
For
more information, please contact NOAA.ENS@noaa.gov
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