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Expectations During an Incident
Guidance
Concerning Evacuations >>
An evacuation should never be considered unless you are moving to a location
of greater safety. Faculty and staff are always
authorized to direct the evacuation of those in your class or organization.
You may be directed to evacuate in a number of ways:
- The fire alarm
may be sounded (this may be restricted in some rental property –
check with your supervisor). Always respond to the fire alarm by commencing
an evacuation quickly and safely. Never assume you are hearing a false
alarm. Such assumptions kill people.
- Any member of
the UPD or may direct you to evacuate.
- The university’s
mobile public address system or other loudspeakers may be used to communicate
the need to evacuate.
- Local authorities
(police or fire department personnel) may direct you to evacuate.
- Someone, with
no implied authority, may inform you of an evacuation in progress and
the reason for it.
The need for an evacuation
that affects more than one building will be exceptionally rare. A campus-wide
evacuation would be truly extraordinary, but must be considered within
this plan. The Leadership Group will make
any decision involving a multiple building or campus-wide evacuation.
If we must evacuate, it will be a phased process moving those closest
to the danger to staging areas first. Transportation will be coordinated
from the staging areas if the incident lasts long enough to require more
permanent relocation.
The details concerning a building evacuation are included here and will
apply to evacuations that respond to any of the concerns listed below.
- When evacuating
because of an emergency inside the building, take the stairs; do not
use the elevator.
- If power is lost,
the electronic security system will not be in force; all stairway doors
will unlock on loss of power.
- Should you be
trapped in the elevator, pick up the security telephone, use the installed
speaker, or press the alarm button in the elevator. Remain calm. Help
will arrive as soon as possible.
- Give your full
attention to your surroundings, helping to insure your safe evacuation
and that of those around you.
- Take only limited
personal possessions with you, such as coats and purses, and supply
of prescription medication. Carry your GWorld cards and keys
with you.
- Take your class
list or personnel roster with you so that you can account for people
once outside.
- During evacuation,
it is important to consider the needs of everyone. Some people have
physical challenges or disabilities, are in wheelchairs, use crutches
or walkers, have arthritis, heart condition, sight or hearing impairments,
asthma or other conditions which might limit mobility, reduce stamina
and require assistance. Be aware of staff and/or visitors who are non–English
speakers who may also require special assistance in times of emergency.
- For those with
special needs who are ambulatory, assign escorts to accompany them from
the building.
- If you are responsible
for someone who requires special attention that affects their mobility,
wait with them – or have someone wait with them – in the fire
tower until assistance arrives from emergency personnel. If there is
no fire tower, or the evacuation is because of a threat to or an emergency
inside the building, enlist helpers. You should always seek the
advice of the person with physical limitations. They have more
experience at being helped than you do in providing help to them! One
safe method is the two-person carry technique, also called the swing
or chair carry:
- Ensure carriers
are physically capable of the task.
- Carriers
stand on opposite sides of the individual.
- Take the
arm on your side and wrap it around your shoulder.
- Grasp your
carry partner’s forearm behind the person in the small of the
back.
- Reach under
the person’s knees to grasp the wrist of your carry partner’s
other hand.
- Both carry
partners should then lean in, close to the person, and lift together.
- Continue
pressing into the person being carried for additional support during
the carry.
- Turn off electrical
equipment as you depart. Do not delay the evacuation to accomplish this.
- Do not attempt
to turn any failed electrical equipment back on.
- Hang up phones
knocked off their cradles if doing so will not delay evacuation. (This
may help with overloaded phones in a large or notorious incident).
- Avoid all exposed
wires.
- Cover the nose
and mouth with a piece of clothing to avoid inhaling smoke or dust.
- If at all possible comply with the
University's shelter-in-place policy. If rendezvous must be outside, then the rendezvous
point (for those in your charge to report their
safe evacuation) should be in another University building to comply with
the Shelter-In-Place policy. Primary and secondary rendezvous points
should be selected to insure the availability of one.
- Assume an explosion
will occur if one was threatened.
- Flush eyes and
mucous membranes as soon as possible if concrete or other dust was present
and airborne.
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