Emergency procedures guide

Response

When the alarm sounds or after instruction by a building warden you must:

Notify

Notify

1. UOW Security 4221 4900
2. First Aiders
3. Chief Building Warden

Danger

• Check for danger: To self, bystanders or casualty. Remove any hazards

Response

• Check for response of casualty. Ask: Can you hear me? What’s your name? Open your eyes. Squeeze my hand.

Send

• Send for help by calling UOW Security on 4221 4900 or Emergency Services on 000.

Airway

• Open airway
• Check and clear mouth (on side if drowning or blocked)
• Tilt head and lift chin

Breathing

• Breathing normally?
  • Yes, place in recovery position
  • No, Commence CPR

CPR

• Commence CPR/30:2
• 30 Chest Compressions:
  • locate compression point on centre of chest
  • place heel of hand on compression point, with the other hand on top
  • 30 compressions delivered at a rate of 100 per minute
  • compress to 1/3 of the chest depth.
• 2 Rescue Breaths:
  • Tilt head and lift chin to open airway
  • Give 2 rescue breaths. Allow for chest to rise and fall
  • continue CPR at 30 compressions: 2 rescue breaths until normal breathing or responsiveness returns.
• Recovery position:
  • If normal breathing returns, place casualty on their side and maintain clear airway.

Defibrillation

• Attach defibrillator (AED) as soon as available - access via UOW Security

Response

1. Complete and follow the directions outlined in the UOW Telephone Bomb Threat Form.
2. Get as much information from the caller as possible.
3. Keep the caller on the line and record everything that is said.
4. Notify UOW Security.
5. Await further directions from the Emergency Management Coordinator.

Response

1. Move people to a safe area.
2. Assess the situation.
3. Isolate the area if danger is present. Prevent access until help arrives.
4. Isolate people who may be contaminated by substance (leave in area or move to safe place). Prevent non-contaminated persons accessing the area.
5. Follow evacuation procedures.
6. Seek assistance from trained staff, UOW Security, First Aiders and Building Wardens.

Examples

Suspect biological hazard, suspicious mail with characteristics highlight explosive threat.

Unopened

• Place item in a plastic bag and seal it.
• Place all items in a second plastic bag and seal that also.
• Stay in your office or immediate work area. This also applies to co-workers in the same room.
• Prevent others from entering the area and becoming contaminated. Remember you are not in immediate danger.
• Contact Building Warden/UOW Security
• Wait for help to arrive

Opened

• Do not disturb the item any further.
• Do not pass it around. If any material has spilt from the item, do not try to clean it up, or brush it from your clothing.
• If possible place an object over the package without disturbing it such as a large waste bin.
• Isolate staff in immediate area, move away from item, e.g. enter another room and ensure no one else enters the area; close doors to prevent access. If possible without leaving the work environment allow staff to wash hands.
• Contact Building Warden/UOW Security
• Wait for help to arrive

Response

Recognising potential hazards

1. Unfamiliar name and address of sender. No return address
2. Address block has an improper or incorrect title, name or address. A title but no name in the address. Wrong title with name in address.
3. Handwritten or poorly typed addresses. Misspelling of common words.
4. Return address and postmark are not from the same area.
5. Excessive postage or unusual stamps.
6. Over-wrapped, excessive tape, string or wrappings. Oddly shaped or unevenly weighted packages
7. Lumpy or rigid envelopes, stiffer than normal, heavier than normal, e.g. Lopsided or uneven envelope.
8. Oily stains or discolorations. Strange odours.
9. Protruding wires or tinfoil. Visual distractions (drawings, unusual statements, hand drawn postage, etc.)

Notify

1. UOW Security 4221 4900
2. Supervisor

Response

Armed hold-up

• Remain calm, obey the person’s instructions.
• Do what you are told.
• Do not volunteer information.
• Do not stare at the person.
• If you are ordered to hand over money, be deliberate in your actions.
• If you can leave the building with safety, do so and raise the alarm.
• If you are not involved in the incident, stay away and out of danger.
• Observe as much as possible about the person (speech, mannerisms, clothing, scars or tattoos). Record these observations in writing as quickly as you can after the hold-up.

Other

1. Consider evacuation:
   • Lockdown
   • Run away
   • Shelter in place
2. Move to a safe place:
   • refuge inside an office with a locked door.
   • Seek refuge in a room where you can shut the door, lock the door if you can;
   • leave the area;
   • outside of the affected building;
   • if already outdoors, leave the immediate area;
3. Don’t place yourself in danger by moving around, seek cover and stay put till you are assisted by UOW Security or the Police.
4. Use a telephone to advise the UOW Security of your location and situation

Notify

1. UOW Security 4221 4900
2. Chief Building Wardens of affected buildings

Response

• Assess the situation
• Remove people from immediate danger if safe to do so.

What should I do?

Stay

1. If it is safe to shelter in place stay inside your building
2. Close windows and doors
3. Await instructions from the Building Warden and UOW Security.

Leave

1. If it is not safe to stay inside the building follow evacuation procedures. Proceed to the assembly area designated for the building.
2. If the assembly area designated for the building is unsafe move to a safe area.

Staff counselling

The  provides confidential, free, professional counselling to all staff for a broad range of personal or work related concerns. The EAP is provided by an external organisation, Lifeworks, who specialise in the provision of EAP services to government and private organisations including other universities.

Lifeworks Counselling 1300 361 008

Student counselling

Counselling Service is a free and confidential service available to post-graduate and under-graduate students with personal, work or study related difficulties. Counsellors are experienced registered psychologists.

Counselling Service 4221 3445

Fire extinguishers should only be used when it is safe to do so. When using a fire extinguisher there are some basic principles which can be easily remembered from the acronym PASS:

• Pull
• Aim
• Squeeze
• Sweep

Before attempting to extinguish a fire always raise the alarm and seek assistance.

• When attempting to fight the fire ensure you have a safe means of exit. Never let the fire get between you and the exit.
• There are different classes of fire extinguishers that are to be used on different types of fires. In an emergency this information is labelled on the fire extinguisher.
• The table below outlines the appropriate types of fire extinguishers for different types of fires:

Fire extinguisher selection and use should be used to assist when responding to an emergency with a fire extinguisher.