Safety & Risk Management

If you receive information (smoke, fire alarm, verbal warning etc.) of a fire or other emergency that necessitates your leaving the building, the following procedures should be followed:

• If you have time, report the incident as described above;
• Calmly but quickly collect immediate personal possessions (purse, wallet, glasses, coats, etc.);
• If time and safety permit, close all interior doors, checking as you do so to insure no one is trapped or incapacitated;
• Calmly but quickly make your way to the nearest safe exit, assisting the disabled or others as needed and exit the building;
• If the emergency involves a fire, do not use elevators, use stairways only; and
• Proceed to the designated evacuation collection point/staging area and report to the building monitor to insure all employees are accounted for.