10.00 Emergency Plan
Sir Sandford Fleming College shall have a written plan detailing actions to be taken when an emergency occurs.
The Emergency Plan will be comprehensive enough to cope with all types of emergencies as well as those unique to specific locations.
The Emergency Plan will be formulated based on the following assumptions:
- emergencies do occur;
- when they occur, losses must be minimized in order to protect people, property and the environment;
- controlling these losses requires planned procedures; clearly understood responsibility, authority, and accountability; and well-trained experienced people.
- The Emergency Plan shall include building safety response; medical response, and personal safety programs. Components include::
- The Official Fire Plan detailing equipment, and agencies maintaining equipment, the process for evacuation, including evacuation of the disabled; the plan for fire drills; building features such as emergency exit routes illuminated with LED lights , battery emergency lighting.
- The First Aid program and regulations involving compliance.
- Emergency procedures related to personal safety threats such as assault, presence of weapons, biological threats, hostage, robbery, bomb threats
- A listing of emergency personnel , including senior management, physical resources staff, and others associated with the emergency communication such as Tragic Events Response Team;
- Communications protocol to handle decision making in matters such as the closure of building..
The Emergency Plan will provide for:
- the protection of employees, students and all others on College premises at the time of the emergency;
- protection of College property;
- protection of the environment;
- periodic review and updating of the plan;
- resumption of partial or complete College business activities
Distribution of the procedures.
The documents “Emergency procedures” detailing the action to be taken by the victim/witness, the security guard, and college management is posted on the safety website
as EMERGENCIES. Hard copies are distributed to personnel involved in the process during an emergency event. Emergency telephone lists including home phone numbers are distributed in hard copy only, to those on the list. Updates are provided annually, and whenever the names/phone numbers of key personnel change.