Building Marshal Review
with updates and changes
SLCC
General Emergency Guidelines
• Do the following during an emergency:
• Be familiar with, and use, the SLCC Emergency
Procedures Handbook.
• If you are on campus turn on CERT radio to Channel 1.
• Report emergencies to public safety at 801-957-3800
• Call Department of Public Safety-Emergency
Management @801-957-4963.
General Emergency Guidelines
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If DPS- EM does not answer contact 9-1-1.
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Evacuate buildings immediately, or at the request of authorities, upon hearing an
alarm, or when remaining becomes life threatening.
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Please have Faculty and Student go to their assembly areas. (for accountability)
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Keep a CERT Bag/ BLDG Marshal’s bag nearby, with emergency items ready to go.
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Know the location of all exits from your area.
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Every SLCC building has a Building Marshal and a CERT Team. Know who all of the
building marshals are. If an emergency is confined to your building, other building
marshals may help. (SEE APPENDIX A)
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Create a call down list of personnel willing to support your Building Marshal
responsibilities. Please keep current.
Before you leave your Area...
•Check Staff/Students to ensure safety
•Inspect area for damage
•Inspect utilities and secure as needed
•Call contacts at _________
•Get Area disaster supplies
EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS
• Identify areas in your building that may be a danger of falling objects.
• Have Facilities secure fixtures such as lights, cabinets, bookcases and
heavy objects that may come loose or fall during an earthquake. Do not
hang plants in heavy pots that could swing free of hooks.
• If you feel it is necessary, have Facilities check the electrical wiring and gas
connections to equipment. Defective electrical connections or inflexible
gas connections are dangerous during an earthquake.
• Any shutoff of main valves or switches for electrical, gas or water will be
handled by Facilities.
• Hold drills so that each member of your CERT team knows what to do
during an earthquake.
EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS
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• Make sure your CERT bag is stocked and ready for use. Your CERT bag is
not the office first aid kit. The items in your bag should be used for
emergencies only.
• (SEE APPENDIX B FOR CERT BAG SUPPLIES LIST)
• After an earthquake, make sure everyone is all right. Don’t move the
seriously injured unless they are still in danger. Follow appropriate CERT
training requirements.
• Do not use telephones unless there is a severe injury. Ensure that all
telephones are in their cradles. Telephones may or may not be operating
after an earthquake.
• Leave buildings that have been damaged until a safety assessment can be
made.
• Stay at work (assist if needed) until you know it is safe to leave. Evaluate
your situation: Can you get home? Is it the best place to go? Listen to the
radio, but make sure the reports are confirmed before you react to the
news.
FIRE PREPAREDNESS
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Be involved in a fire prevention program in your building. Make periodic
inspections of your building for fire hazards.
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In the case of a fire and if the alarm does not sound, warn the building
occupants to evacuate after you pull the alarm.
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If an alarm sounds, assist in the orderly evacuation of your building. After the
alarm has been sounded, if it is safe, you should go to the fire alarm panel on
the main floor with your CERT radio to give instructions to responding
personnel.
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Members of your CERT team and Floor Monitors should be involved in
periodic team drills and accounting for the people in your building during a
fire.
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Be aware that if an alarm sounds, the fire department will be automatically
notified.
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Be prepared to give directions and additional information, if necessary, to
responding personnel.
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Know the location and monitor the serviceability of all fire extinguishers in
your building.
POWER FAILURE PREPAREDNESS
• Establish and maintain contact with the appropriate Facilities personnel.
• Keep a listing of all items shut down during the power failure. Provide this
list to Facilities prior to the building being re-energized.
• All buildings on the SLCC Campus’ have backup power for some essential
services. These systems come on line automatically. In the event of long
term power outages the telephone system will operate for approximately
2 hours on battery backup power.
• See if anyone is trapped in elevators. Advise them not to try and get out of
the elevator. Contact Facilities to report this. 801 -957-3911
• In areas with no natural lighting, place flashlights where they may help
guide occupants to the nearest exit.
WATER MAIN BREAK PREPARED
• Contact Facilities for help with getting the
appropriate valves closed. Facilities prefers
that they handle all valves and have assured
us of a 5 minute response time 24 hours a day.
801-957-3911
• Identify any equipment in your building which
may be affected by a water main break and
take appropriate action
NATURAL GAS AND PROPANE LEAK PREPAREDNESS
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Learn the following characteristics of flammable gases:
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Petroleum gases (bottled propane) are heavier than air and will seek the lowest level.
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Natural gas:
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Lighter than air and will rise
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Usually odorless but usually has an odorant added to make it more noticeable.
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Flammable at a concentration of 5% in air. It can be ignited by any source of a spark or a flame.
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When a gas leak is noticed notify Campus Police (Utah Highway Patrol). Always
evacuate first and make notification from another location. 801-957-3800
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Do not operate any electrical equipment or switches (even light switches or a fire
alarm)
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When you evacuate a building always move at twice the distance of the height of
the building to escape any flying glass.
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Do not attempt to close any natural gas valves. This will be accomplished by
Facilities.
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Do not attempt to extinguish a natural gas fire. Let it burn.
ELEVATOR MALFUNCTION
PREPAREDNESS
• Become familiar with the elevators in your building and know what
will affect their operation.
• Monitor the maintenance on your elevators and see that their
emergency telephones and instructions remain operational.
• If people become stranded in an elevator:
• Determine the floor on which they are stalled. If they have an
emergency phone tell them to use it.
• Tell the stranded individuals that help is on the way and they and
they will be rescued safely.
• Report this situation to Facilities as soon as possible 801-957-3911
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INCIDENT PREPAREDNESS
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Become familiar with the hazardous materials in your building and where they are
stored. You should be able to get a list for the appropriate Division Chairs or
Facilities personnel that store these materials in your building. Keep this list in a
location where you have easy access and can carry it with you if you have to
evacuate the building. (SEE APPENDIX C)
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If you have an incident involving hazardous materials:
– Evacuate any involved individuals from the area if you can do so without exposing yourself to
unnecessary risk
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– Contact Public Safety and Environmental Health and Safety and report as much information
concerning what and how much has been released 801-957-3800 and 801-957-4902
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Do not walk into or touch any spilled material. If your shoes do get contaminated
don’t leave the area with your shoes on. It will contaminate other areas.
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Avoid inhalation of gases, fumes, and smoke, even if no hazardous material is
involved.
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When responders arrive (Environmental Health and Safety or Fire Department)
provide them with your list of hazardous materials in your building.
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Do not wash any of these materials into drains.
DISASTER RESPONSIBILITIES
(Emergency & Events)
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One of the Building Marshal’s primary responsibilities during a disaster is to
provide a communications link between Facilities, Department of Public Safety and
any responding personnel.
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In the event of a disaster each Building Marshal should report to the Campus
Emergency Operations Center either in person or by their CERT radio (Channel 1)
for instructions.
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Information to be collected and passed on to the Emergency Operations Center
will include: (assembly areas for accountability)
– Number of individuals still in your building.
– Number of individuals still missing.
– Number of injuries and a summary of these injuries.
– Any immediate first aid required.
– Estimate of damage to the building and contents.
BUILDING EVACUATION PLANS
• This section provides an area for building evacuation
plans. These plans should contain a map for each floor
of your building. Each floor plan should include the
evacuation routes from each room on each floor. The
plan for the main floor will indicate the outside
assembly area for your building.
• Get a drawing of your building on line. This should be
inserted into your booklet. (if you cannot find one
contact Facilities)
BLDG Marshal Bag
Please keep your
Bag updated.
Please check items
regularly to ensure
operational needs
during an
emergency
HAZMAT List
Please review your
buildings for
Hazardous Materials.
Please make note of
them and location
and how many to
help first responders.