OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETYFaculty of Education, Humanities & Law

Emergency Information

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NEED TO KNOW

If you are new or returning to the University, Faculty or Building, there are emergencies that happen …

We need to know what to do.

SCOPE

This covers:

1. Types of emergencies: evacuation, fire, medical, First Aid, security.

2. Persons with disabilities.

3. Contact people and numbers:• Emergency Services.• Campus security.• Police.• Poisons information.• Medical centre.

ALERT SIGNAL

1. Prepare to leave: • Gather small, valuable, personal belongings only• Switch off computers & electrical appliances• Do not lock office or internal doors

2. Await further instructions or evacuation signal.

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Sounds “BEEP-BEEP”:

EVACUATION SIGNAL

1. Evacuate via safest route outside, then to delegated Assembly Area.

2. Exit routes are marked with “EXIT” green signs

3. Do not run. Do not use lifts.

4. Mobility impaired persons should report to a fire warden.

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Sounds “WHOOP-WHOOP”:

EVACUATION SIGNAL

5. Do not re-enter the building until instructed to do so by Wardens.

6. Check all are present.

• Disability Services are available to students and staff with disabilities.

• A Disability Advisor may be consulted to develop a Personal Evacuation Plan (PEP) for the building.

• Contact Health, Counselling and Disability Services for access to University support and services.

Phone: 8201 2118 | TTY: 8201 3242 |

Email:disability@flinders.edu.au

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

MEDICAL EMERGENCY/ FIRST AID

1. Phone Emergency Services operator 0, 000 University desk phone or mobile phones; 000, or 112.

2. Ask for “Ambulance; I am in Adelaide, South Australia”.

3. Give more Exact Location.Number of people.Type of emergency – main symptomseg. unconscious, stopped breathing, cut & bleeding, fainted.

4. University Security 12880.

MEDICAL EMERGENCY/ FIRST AID

5. Contact a First Aid trained person

6. Fetch a First Aid kit

7. Post “Look-Outs” for directing the ambulance

Danger

Response

Airway

Breathing

Circulation

Pressure, Immobilisation, Elevation

PHONE NUMBERS

Emergency Services 0 - 000

Police 0 - 131 444

Ambulance 0 - 000

Fire 0 - 000

Fire Department (St Mary’s) 0 - 8204 3840

Poisons Information Service 0 - 131 126

Flinders Campus Security 12880

FIRE

If you discover a fire:

• Sound the alarm; notify others.

• Safely leave the building: close doors and windows (don’t lock).

• Initiate Evacuation procedures.

SUMMARY

1. Types of emergencies: fire, evacuation, medical, First Aid, security.

2. Contact people and numbers:• Emergency Services 0 - 000 or 112 mobile.• Campus security 12880.• Police 0 – 131444.