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Emergency Response Team (ERT) Plan

The Emergency Response Team has been established to assist in the safe and effective evacuation of all staff when a Fire Alarm is sounded. All alarms are to be taken as a true emergency, and all staff are to exit the building immediately without returning to workstations or to get personal items. All staff are to meet at the identified mustering site (Industrial Way behind the 801 parking structure).

ERT member roles and responsibilities

ERT members are responsible for knowing their assigned tasks and how they relate to the overall evacuation plan. For locations outside of building, see maps.

Zone Leaders

  1. Walk through assigned zone informing staff to evacuate and direct them to nearest stairwell
  2. Check areas of responsibility in their zone to ensure it is clear
  3. Report zones cleared to Stairwell Monitor
  4. Exit building to mustering site

Stairwell Monitors

  1. Go directly to assigned stairwell
  2. Make sure no one re-enters the floor or tries to go back to their desk
  3. Using the Zone Clearance Check List in the document holder at stairwell, receive report of cleared zones from Zone Leaders
  4. Give report on cleared zones via radio to Evacuation Report Coordinator (when requested)
  5. People who need assistance getting down the stairs should:
    • Be Kept out of exit path and then left in stairwell once it is safe to do so
    • Report to Evacuation Report Coordinator the location of these people (floor/stairwell) or
    • (If trained to use stair chairs) transport people down in the stair chairs located on the 3rd and 5th floors
  6. Exit building to mustering site

Evacuation Report Coordinator

  1. Direct communications and receive reports from Stairwell Monitors about cleared zones
  2. Direct communications and receive reports from Report Coordinators for staff and visitors
  3. Communicate report to Incident Commander

Traffic Control Monitors

  1. Direct the traffic of staff towards the mustering site
  2. Control car traffic going in and out of parking garage
  3. Direct flow of staff toward the mustering site

Staff Report Coordinators

  1. Exit building and go to HPSM mustering site
  2. Ensure that Department Signs are being distributed
  3. Account for staff and visitors using ERT Staff Roster list and department signs
  4. Huddle by floor and choose spokesperson to give report on accountability of staff and visitors to Evacuation Report Coordinator when directed

Incident Commander (IC)

  1. Assume responsibility for overall management of the response
  2. Direct and control any incident
  3. Receive report from Evacuation Report Coordinator
  4. Receive status report from Property Management Coordinator and Building Engineer
  5. Deal directly with Fire, Police, Paramedics and all Emergency Personnel
  6. Give further direction to the ERT and assume responsibility for the “ALL CLEAR”

For more details, see the Incident Command Companion Guide.

Org Chart

Information flows from the Zone Leaders up to the Incident Commander.

ERT information flow

Maps and locations

Loading dock access

Ring doorbell or call the phone number posted on the door