In case of emergency
Campus safety main concern for students
Matt Russell
Issue date: 4/27/09 Section: News
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This is true for both students and administrators, yet many students have said they feel unprepared for an emergency situation and don't know what, if anything, the university would have them do.
"No one has ever told me what to do during an emergency," Matthew Garner, an engineering major, said. "I would probably just get in my car and go home."
A group of engineering students agreed with Garner and said the university should make it a priority to prepare students for the unthinkable.
D.A. Davis, safety supervisor of ASU's Office of Environmental Health and Safety, said the university provided an "Emergency Procedures Handbook" that was posted on kiosks across campus to inform students. However, an inspection of kiosks in five buildings revealed not a single copy.
"I've lived in the dorms for over two years and I've never seen [the Emergency Procedures Handbook]," a pre-med student said.
Other universities have begun to offer emergency response guides online, in addition to the physical copies found on campus. Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y., uses this site for example: http://www.ithaca.edu/emergency/pdfs/Emergency_Response_Guide_041108.pdf
If ASU's emergency procedures handbook is available online, a search of more than 40 results through the ASU Web site did not reveal one.
ASU's Emergency Procedures Handbook covers basic steps students should take in the event of an emergency and lists contact information for emergency responders. ASU's handbook covers: fire, explosion, bomb threat, earthquake, tornado and chemical spill scenarios. There is nothing about shooting incidents.
The ASU Emergency Response Plan is organized around the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which was introduced in 2002 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.)
It's much like the approach used by police officers and firefighters for every incident, according to Davis, who is also responsible for emergency response planning at ASU.
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