Emergency Procedures
Emergency Preparedness
- Know your building's evacuation plan.
- When working with flammable or other hazardous materials, have the appropriate spill cleanup supplies ready.
- Have a battery operated radio.
- Discuss preparedness plans with your co-workers.
- Call Environmental Health & Safety for fire extinguisher training.
Building Evacuation
- When the fire alarm is activated, evacuation is mandatory, even if you don't smell smoke.
- Do NOT use elevators!
- Take personal belongings such as keys, purses, etc.
- Notify your supervisor and/or emergency personnel present.
- Assist persons with disabilities.
Weather Emergency
- For up-to-date weather information:
- Monitor local radio and TV stations.
- Listen for the campus emergency siren and its messages and instructions.
- Be prepared to take shelter in place until otherwise notified by emergency personnel present.
- During thunderstorms, do NOT handle electrified equipment.
- During tornadoes or strong straight-line winds:
- Seek shelter in an interior hallway or a lower floor.
- Get under sturdy furniture if available.
- Listen for the campus emergency siren and its messages and instructions.
- Assist persons with disabilities.
Most buildings on campus have been assessed by the National Weather Service. Each floor of the building has a floor plan with included evacuation routes and shelter locations. Persons should familiarize themselves with those signs and consult when taking the necessary precautions outlined above.
Fire
- Help remove those needing assistance in the immediate area.
- Activate the nearest fire alarm pull station and call 911.
- Confine the fire by closing windows and doors.
- Extinguish the fire if you have been trained and it is safe to do so.
- Evacuate the building.
- Do not enter the building until authorized by emergency personnel.
Bomb Threat
- Remain calm.
- Get as much information as possible from the threatening caller, such as location of the device, when the device was planted, etc.
- Call 911.
- Follow instructions of emergency personnel present.
Suspicious Object or Package
- Do NOT touch or disturb the object or package.
- Call 911.
- Notify your supervisor and/or emergency personnel present.
Suspicious Person
- Do not physically confront the person(s).
- Do not let anyone into a locked building, office, or other space.
- Do not block the person(s) access to an exit.
- Call 911 and provide as much information as possible about the person(s) and their direction of travel.