What is an instructors responsibility regarding emergency evacuations?
1. Review emergency procedures/exits with each class during the first week of the semester. 2. When an alarm sounds and the announcement is made to evacuate the building, shut down your immediate activities. Communicate to students the need to leave the building and remind them where our meeting place is. If there are any students with disabilities, assign someone to assist them during the evacuation. Be sure you take a class roll with you! Close the doors to the room, but leave the doors unlocked. Follow the designated evacuation route using the stairs, not the elevator. 3. Move away from the building and meet with the other members of the department at our designated place (the grassy area between LNCO and MBH) to verify that all your students have left the building. Students must remain with you until emergency responders indicate it is safe to return to the building or have been dismissed.
