Safety - Evacuation

For emergencies (such as fire, chemical spill, electrical power outage, ...) which require evacuation of the Chemistry Building, emergency coordinators are vital to achieving an orderly, safe, and complete evacuation.

When the fire/evacuation alarm sounds, or a voice message is given over the public address system, or the lights go out:

All students, faculty, visitors, and employees NOT assigned to assist in the evacuation:
- Promptly and orderly leave the building (taking coats, briefcases, etc., which may be needed before the building can be re-entered).
- Go to our rally site (in front of Shaw Hall).
- Remain there until cleared to leave by a supervisor.
All emergency coordinators having a floor assignment (see list, below):
- Gather by the elevators on their assigned floors, being sure to wear their yellow hard-hats and to bring their kit, flashlight, and evacuation check list.
- If any emergency coordinator is absent, another on that floor will phone the command center (see bottom of page) and a floater will be sent, or assignments altered, to ensure coverage of the absent person's responsibilities.
- Conduct a sweep check of their assigned areas, knocking on closed doors and alerting everyone to the emergency and requesting that they leave the building, and closing all open doors.
- Take the end stairwell to the 1st floor and report to the floater (the one with a radio, from the list below) the status of the sweep and any problems noted on the checklist. The floater will relay this information to the evacuation coordinator who will compile it onto an emergency team leader's checklist and give it to the incident commander (a police or fire officer) to report the completeness of the sweeps and evacuation and to alert the incident commander of any problems that need addressing.
All emergency coordinators having an entrance assignment (see list, below):
- When the sweeps are completed and reported, the emergency coordinators will go to their entrance assignments (see list, below) to ensure that no one re-enters the building before the building is secured by the police or declared safe to enter.

NOTE: All employees, after leaving the building, will gather at our rally site (in front of Shaw Hall) and MUST NOT leave without the knowledge of, and permission from, their supervisor.

NOTE: In accordance with the directive from the MSU Vice President for Finance and Operations that every building have an annual fire drill, DPPS intends to give us only one noisy day a year by combining our fire drill with their annual testing of our building's fire/evacuation alarm system. Those not leaving the building during the drill can expect to explain their inaction to a police officer.

(April 27, 2001 - revised November 14, 2002 dlw)

Emergency Coordinator Assignments

(as of May 5, 2003)

Floor Assignments
Floor	Individual Assignments
Sub-basement	Tom Geissinger (east wing) Kathy Severin (west wing)
Basement	Janet Haun (SE wing) Bill Flick (NE wing) Glenn Wesley (south wing) Dave Cedarstaff (west wing)
First Floor	Wendy Tsuji (west wing) Steve Poulios (east wing) Sheldon Knoespel (rooms 136 and 138)
Second Floor	David Baker (east wing) John Mireley (west wing)
Third Floor	Karen Maki (west wing) Ruth Ann Matthews (SE wing) Debbie Roper (NE wing)
Fourth Floor	Diane Frost (west wing) Nancy Lavrik (east wing)
Fifth Floor	DeAnn Pierce (west wing) Beth McGaw (east wing)
Penthouse	Bob Rasico

Entrance Assignments
Entrance	Individual Assignments
Main (North) Entrance	Karen Maki Ruth Ann Matthews
SW and NW Entrances	Tom Atkinson Nancy Lavrik Bill Flick
SE and NE Entrances	Melissa Parsons Diane Frost
Back Door to room 138	David Baker Glenn Wesley Dave Cedarstaff
Loading Dock	Kermit Johnson Steve Poulios
Doors across from Lecture Hall 138	Sheldon Knoespel John Mireley Tom Geissinger

Floaters (meet by room 141)
Don Ward, Dave Voss, Bill Fritz, Bob Rasico, Scott Bankroff, Tom Bartlett, Melissa Parsons

Evacuation Coordinator
Ardeshir Azadnia

Command Centers
Type of Emergency	Command Center Location
Other than Tornado warning	Bob Rasico's office (room 141, ext 360)
During Tornado warning only	Janet Haun's office (room 8, ext 356)

Rally Sites
At the present time:	in front of Shaw Hall in front of Ag. Engineering

Forms
evacuation check list (used by all emergency coordinators having a floor assignment)
emergency team leader's checklist (used by the evacuation coordinator)