ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY Fire Safety: Faculty Classroom Responsibilities

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY
One West University Boulevard • Brownsville, Texas 78520 • 956-882-5930 • www.utb.edu/ba/safety
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE
Fire Safety: Faculty Classroom Responsibilities
The Environmental Health and Safety Department has created this guide for your use as you cover the General
Fire Emergency Evacuation Procedures with your students. This should occur within the first few days of each
semester. It is important that you first take the time to identify the following items and locations prior to
disseminating this information:
1. All appropriate evacuation routes and alternate exits specific to the classroom.
2. Predetermined assembly areas specific to the building.
3. Fire alarm activation boxes (if applicable) and nearest fire extinguishers.
General Fire Emergency Evacuation Procedures
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Upon hearing the fire alarm, or when instructed by Emergency Response Personnel, ensure the safe
evacuation of all students. Everyone must evacuate.
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Close all doors upon exiting your classroom or laboratory and alert others of the emergency as you exit.
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If you’re located in a laboratory, ensure that gas supplies are turned off (if in use) prior to exiting.
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Elevators cannot be used during a fire emergency evacuation.
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Stay with your students throughout the evacuation and at the predetermined assembly areas until notified
otherwise by authorized Emergency Response Personnel.
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If predetermined assembly areas are not accessible or ideal at that point in time, make your way to an area
located no less than 150 feet from the building (preferably upwind).
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The predetermined assembly area for your building is (insert below):
Additional Considerations for Persons with Disabilities
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Assist (or assign someone to assist) persons with disabilities to assembly areas or to a designated “area
of refuge” typically found within an enclosed emergency exit stairway.
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Immediately inform Emergency Response Personnel of anyone located in an “area of refuge”.
Note: Prior to handing your class over to a substitute instructor, inform him/her of emergency procedures and
relevant expectations.
Visit the following links for more information or contact EH&S at 882-5930:
Environmental Health & Safety Website http://www.utb.edu/ba/safety/
Assembly Areas http://www.utb.edu/ba/safety/Documents/Fire-Evacuation-Assembly.pdf
Evacuation Procedures http://www.utb.edu/ba/safety/Manuals/fire-evacuation-procedures.pdf
Area of Refuge/Evacu-Trac video http://www.utb.edu/ba/safety/Pages/Evacu-Trac.aspx
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY
One West University Boulevard • Brownsville, Texas 78520 • 956-882-5930 • www.utb.edu/ba/safety
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE
How to Report an Emergency:
Fire Event:
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Activate nearest fire alarm activation box and exit the building!
Call 9-1-1
Campus Police
882-2222
Provide dispatcher with your name and emergency details (i.e. UTB, building name, known injuries, etc.).
Medical Emergency:
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Call 9-1-1
Campus Police
882-2222
Provide dispatcher with your name and emergency details (i.e. UTB, building name, known injuries, etc.).
Hazardous Chemical / Biological Spill:
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Campus Police
882-2222
Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) 882-5930
Provide dispatcher with your name and emergency details (i.e. UTB, building name, type of spill, name of
chemicals or biological material involved, known exposures or injuries, etc.)
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