May 2007
Please send suggestions/comments to schorsch@uic.edu.
| In case of fire or fire
alarm |
|
Action to take: 2. Do NOT use elevators. Exit them immediately upon hearing the fire alarm. If anyone is stuck in the elevators, notify the UIC Police of their location immediately. 3. Check on your floor to see if there is a person using a wheelchair or who otherwise cannot walk down the stairs. If there is, one person should, if at all possible, move and stay with that person inside the holding area at the entry to the South West stairwell, which has a two hour fire rating, and another person should notify the UIC Police or the Fire Department of the location of that person. The Fire or Police Departments will determine whether they should use the elevator or carry the person down the stairs. 4. Otherwise, lock your office door and exit the building immediately, bringing your flashlight, your keys, your wallet and/or purse. Because in the event of an actual fire, you may not be able to reenter your office, please bring your items like your wallet/purse/keys with you when you exit the building the first time. 5. Wait away from CUPPA Hall on the south/opposite side of the CTA Station, or the lobby of Jefferson Hall if weather is too inclement, for further instructions. 6. Notify the Dean's office if you notice that any of the emergency lights or other emergency fixtures such as alarms, phones, etc., are not in working order, and their location. 7. If you have used a fire extinguisher or fire hose, please notify the UIC Police of its location, so it can be recharged or put back into ready condition. 8. If
the Dean's office is closed during the emergency if it
occurs
during the evening or weekend, please make sure someone calls the
Associate
Dean at 773-655-7336. Location of CUPPAH and ADH fire alarm pull
stations: Location of building exits in CUPPAH and
ADH: ADH: Other information: |
| In case of a power failure |
|
Action taken by CUPPA Dean's office: 2. CUPPA Dean's office calls 6-2834 or 6-7511 to notify Facilities Management. 3. CUPPA
Dean's office initiates CUPPA
emergency phone tree (more information below) to relay to unit
contacts the information received from UIC Police and Facilities
Management, and the suggested course of action. Action taken by individuals: 2. If the power failure continues more than 1 minute, unplug your computer, lock your office, and make your way to the exits, bringing your flashlight, your keys, your wallet and/or purse. NB: Because in the event of an long term power failure, you may not be able to reenter your office, please bring your items like your wallet/purse/keys with you when you exit the building. 3. Check on your floor to see if there is a person using a wheelchair or who otherwise cannot walk down the stairs. If there is, one person should, if at all possible, move and stay with that person inside the holding area at the entry to the South West stairwell, which has a two hour fire rating, and another person should notify the UIC Police or the Fire Department of the location of that person. The Fire or Police Departments will determine whether they should use the elevator or carry the person down the stairs. 4. Otherwise, exit the building and wait outside the building at CTA Station on the Peoria Avenue bridge, or the lobby of Jefferson Hall if weather is too inclement, for further instructions. Please do not congregate near the front door, since the Fire Department must have access. 5. Notify the CUPPA Dean's office if you notice that any of the emergency lights or other emergency fixtures such as alarms, phones, fire extinguishers, etc., are not in working order, and their location. 6. If
the Dean's office is closed during the emergency if it
occurs
during the evening or weekend, please make sure someone pages the
Associate
Dean at 773-655-7336. Note that emergency
lighting only has a life of 1.5 hours, so it is best to leave the
building earlier rather than later. |
| In
case of a security alert |
| Campus
SMS Alert System Exerpt from 5/3/07 memo sent by: Ahmed Kassem, Vice Provost/Chief Information Officer/Director, Academic Computing and Communications Center Mark Rosati, Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs To enhance UIC's ability to alert the campus to emergencies, we are implementing a text-messaging system. This will enable campus officials to send very brief bulletins to you in the event of a serious crime, weather emergency, or similar incident. To subscribe, simply go to http://sms.accc.uic.edu CUPPA Security Alert Color Code System Until updated by UIC policy, CUPPA has set an interim three-stage Security Alert color code system, in case we are notified of a threatening episode that might endanger faculty, staff, and students. The CUPPA Dean's office, the unit director or a designated person can call a Security Alert. The CUPPA Security Alert Color Code System is: Condition green: Suite doors on normal locking schedules. Lock individual offices and classrooms as normal when vacant. Normal reporting of unauthorized personnel to the UIC Police (non-emergency 6-2830, emergency 6-4357). Condition yellow: Lock suite doors, allowing authorized personnel to access suites by key, key card reader, or through authorized colleagues. Report any suspicious activities to the UIC Police. Colleagues may come and go. Condition red: All doors (suites, individual offices and classrooms) locked. All colleagues stay inside offices and classrooms until all-clear is given by UIC Police. |
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| Contacts |
|
Evacuation Team unit
contacts Safety,
Security and Building Conditions unit contacts |
| CUPPA emergency phone tree |
|
A CUPPA Emergency Phone Tree has
been distributed to CUPPA Evacuation Team and Safety, Security and
Building Conditions (SSBC) contacts. Please keep this phone tree
posted near all reception
desks,
at all times. |
| Equipment: Flashlights |
| Each CUPPA office shall have a
working flashlight on hand, and these
flashlights shall be checked for operability on 1/15/xx, 4/15/xx,
7/15/xx,
and 10/15/xx of each year. It is the responsibility of each
faculty,
staff, and student assigned to an office to check the flashlight.
Each unit shall be responsible for purchasing the flashlights and
batteries
for same. |
| CUPPA Policy on Notification of Police |
|
In order to protect the safety of all university students, employees, and guests in the CUPPA Hall building and other buildings where CUPPA faculty, staff, and students work or study, CUPPA employees are required to call UIC Police (emergencies, 6-HELP, [6-4357, from a cell or external phone, 312-996-4357]; nonemergencies, 6-2830) when a trespasser is observed or suspected in CUPPA Hall or another university building. CUPPA students are urged to do the same. |
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