Emergency Preparedness

 Run

• Run from danger--run to safety
• Plan in Advance how you would get out
• When safe, call Campus Safety @ 575-6911 or 911

Hide

• Find location away from windows
• Lock and barricade doors
• Turn off lights, silence your cell phone, be quiet

Fight

• Last Resort! Attempt to disrupt or incapacitate the shooter
• Be aggressive--commit to your actions
• Throw items--improvise weapons (e.g., chair, fire extinguisher)

Active Shooter

An Active Shooter is an armed person who has used deadly force on other persons and continues to do so while having unrestricted access to additional victims.

If we can identify the individual who needs assistance prior to him picking up a weapon we have a far greater chance of of preventing such a tragedy. Faculty and staff members must be vigilant to the risk of violence on campus. Some behaviors to take notice of and report to Campus Safety are:

• Unusually aggressive, odd, or scary behavior of students or coworkers;
• Threats of violence or retribution, either serious or said jokingly;
• Students or coworkers who are distraught or suicidal;
• Overheard comments or rumors of some planned or intended violence;
• Possession of a weapon

Let's be proactive rather than reactive!  Here are suggestions from the Behavioral Intervention Team! 

Indoors

• Drop, Cover and HoldDROP to the floor.  Take COVER under a sturdy desk, table, etc.  HOLD on to the furniture you are under and protect your face/head. Instruct others to DROP, COVER and HOLD.
• Stay away from glass windows, wall shelves and tall equipment/furniture that might topple over onto you.
• DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE.  DO NOT EVACUATE THE BUILDING UNTIL THE TREMORS CEASE.  Once the main tremor has ceased, quickly evacuate the building, assisting persons of disability.
• If you smell GAS, cease all operations and do not activate electrical switches.  Evacuate the building.

Outdoors

• Quickly move 300 feet away from buildings, utility poles, or other structures.  
• AVOID power or utility lines.

Utmost discretion must be used when evacuating a building. Evacuating a building should be done calmly, but quickly and without panic. Ideally, faculty or instructional staff should inform students, in a calm manner, that the building is being evacuated and should summarize the actions to follow as listed below:

1. EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY if you hear an alarm or are asked to evacuate.
2. Take all personal belongings with you.
3. Classrooms and offices: close, but do not lock, all doors. Laboratories: turn off all gas (cylinders, fuels), and other equipment or machines in use that may pose a hazard.
4. Leave through the nearest safe exit. Walk quickly and calmly to the designated assembly point and alert others to do the same. Do not use elevators during a fire or after an earthquake. During other than earthquake or fire evacuations, reserve elevators for non-ambulatory individuals.
5. Wait quietly and calmly at the designated outdoor assembly point or if unsafe, an alternate safe assembly point or the Campus Evacuation Shelter.
6. Notify the Building Coordinator of anyone unaccounted for from your area.
7. DO NOT REENTER THE BUILDING FOR ANY REASON until instructed it is safe to do so by the Building Coordinator, Facilities staff, campus safety officer, Fire, Police, or other college authority (see All Clear Signal information below).
8. DO NOT LEAVE THE ASSEMBLY AREA until you are released or otherwise directed by the Building Coordinator or other college authority.

Assisting Persons with Disabilities

Wheelchair user

• Assist the person in exiting the building. If located on an upper floor and the elevator is not safe for use (fire or earthquake), assist the person to a safe refuge in an exit stairwell or a room with a closed door away from the hazard. The escort should remain with the disabled person to provide additional assistance. Assign a staff member to notify the Building Coordinator or emergency staff that a disabled person is waiting for rescue on the specified floor at the exit stairwell or specific room.

Visually-impaired

• Explain the nature of the emergency. Offer to guide the person to the designated assembly point. Offer your elbow to the individual. As you walk, describe where you are and advise about any obstacles. When you reach the assembly point, advise the person where he/she is, and ask if further assistance is needed.

Hearing-impaired 

• Alert a hearing-impaired person. Write a short, explicit note instructing the individual to evacuate the building.

All Clear Signal (return to previously evacuated facility)

The "all clear" signal will be given by Campus Safety or other Incident Command System official, indicating faculty, staff and students should return to the facility which they previously vacated.

CALL 9-1-1 FROM A SAFE LOCATION, THEN CAMPUS SAFETY 575-6351.

DO NOT TRY TO FIGHT A FIRE UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO DO SO.

R.A.C.E. to safety from a fire.

R = RESCUE anyone in immediate danger from the fire if it does not endanger your life.
A = ALARM by sounding the alarm when activating the pull station alarm box.
C = CONFINE the fire by closing all doors.
E = EVACUATE to the building evacuation assembly point.

• If you smell smoke, prior to opening a door, feel if the door is HOT. Open cautiously.
• Leave the area at once.  If smoky, stay near the floor where there is less smoke.
• Evacuate the building calmly, but quickly, proceeding to the evacuation assembly point.
• DO NOT TRY TO USE ELEVATORS.  They act like a chimney in a fire.
• Assist persons of disability on upper floors to an area of safe refuge (usually a stairwell landing), ask someone to stay with them and alert responders of their location.
• If trapped, stay calm.  Alert emergency crews by trying the telephone, placing a sign or clothing in a window, whistle, shout or bang on a solid surface atintervals.  Stuff material in door cracks to minimize smoke and stay low.  Do NOT open a window. 

Inside

• Isolate materials if safe to do so. Close doors to the room/area to minimize the release.
• Evacuate immediately and activate the building alarm, assisting persons of disability.
• Call 9-1-1 and then Campus Safety if you are able.
• Move to the evacuation assembly point (primary or alternate) that is upwind.
• Advise emergency responders of the nature, amount and location of the spill.
• Chemical labs will have specific emergency procedures.
  

Life Threatening

Call 9-1-1, then if you are able call Campus Safety – 209-575-6351.

Non-Life Threatening

Call Campus Safety – 209-575-6351.

• Describe the type of injury or illness with a brief description of how it happened and provide the location.
• Do NOT move the injured or ill unless it is necessary to avoid further injury.
• Provide first aid only to the extent of your personal training and ability.
• If possible, have someone meet the medical personnel to direct them to your location.

Seizure

Call Campus Safety – 209-575-6351.

• Ease the person down to the floor immediately and loosen restrictive clothing.
• Give the person as much privacy as possible.
• Do NOT attempt to force any object between the teeth.
• Do NOT hold him/her down.  Instead make him/her as comfortable and safe as possible.
• Talk to him/her until medical personnel arrive to assist.

Active Shooter

• If you hear gunshots, immediately get away if you are able (Get Out!).
• Call 9-1-1 and then Campus Safety if you are able (Call Out!).
• If you cannot flee, turn out the lights and barricade the door or lock if possible and HIDE yourself and others (Hide Out!).
• Do NOT come out of hiding until you are told to do so by police, EVEN IF THE BUILDING ALARM IS SOUNDING.

Severe Weather

• Move away from exterior doors and windows into the core of the building.  Building Coordinators have flashlights.
• Promote calm.
• If possible listen on a portable radio for changes in the weather.
• Remain in place until you are told it is safe to move about.

Hazardous Dispersal Outside

• Move away from exterior doors and windows into the core of the building.  Building Coordinators have flashlights.
• Promote calm.
• Secure exterior doors if possible; stuff materials around exterior doors to prevent leakage; and post signs that a shelter-in-place is in progress.
• Once doors are secure, do NOT open them to let someone in.
• Remain in place until you are told it is safe to move about. 

Electrical/lighting failure

Stay in place for 30 seconds in case there is a power fluctuation or temporary “brown out”.  If lighting does not resume, exit the building following emergency lighting.  If it is too dark to safely exit the building, call Campus Safety and wait for assistance from emergency responders.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO NAVIGATE STAIRWELLS IN COMPLETE DARKNESS.

Plumbing failure/flooding

IMMEDIATELY STOP USING ALL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.  Do not activate electrical switches, especially if you smell gas, call Campus Safety and evacuate the building.

Ventilation problem

If smoke and strange odors come through the ventilation system, evacuate and call Campus Safety.

Elevator Failure

If you are trapped in an elevator, notify Campus Safety using the Emergency Call Box located on the front panel. Remain calm while waiting for assistance.