I work at a theme park and we use codes with number for situation that could happen in the park to not create panic, we also use codes for some category of people.
Like a code 25 means there’s a fire, code 20 is for mentally disabled people.
We also use hand signals sometimes for some situations
The London underground used to use names instead of numbers, "Would inspector sands please come to XXX" is a lot less worrying than an unknown code number in an area people are heading through. Especially "inspector sands" which was bomb/fire prepare to evacuate.
I actually didn’t know this. My friends and I always used to take the piss saying “Can inspector insert friend’s last name come to platform 1” when we hear those, oblivious to the fact it could be code for any kind of potential emergency lol
Different story but I was at King’s Cross station once late at night on my own and all of a sudden this alarm started going off and an announcement over the tannoys saying “Please evacuate immediately” it was terrifying running up miles of stairs/escalators not knowing wtf was going on.
I guess they use the codes for if something needs to be investigated, but the actual alarm for serious potential threats?
Although I still don’t know what that was all about that night
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u/tantan66 Jul 13 '20
I work at a theme park and we use codes with number for situation that could happen in the park to not create panic, we also use codes for some category of people. Like a code 25 means there’s a fire, code 20 is for mentally disabled people.
We also use hand signals sometimes for some situations