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Building Evacuation Procedures  
 
Summary: Learn how to safely evacuate your building or area in an emergency.
  • Learn about your emergency exit routes and outside assembly area: Check the emergency evacuation plan posted in your building.


  • Read your department's Emergency Action Plan: Every UCSD department has an Emergency Action Plan with evacuation procedures for clearing all students, faculty, staff, and visitors from the building or facility, including procedures for people with disabilities.


  • Different kinds of evacuation notice include:
    • Fire alarm
    • Public address system announcements, where available
    • Phones, pagers, or runners notifying areas to evacuate

Follow these basic procedures to safely evacuate a building in the event of an emergency:

What to do How to do it
1 Safely stop your work.
  1. Shut down equipment that could become unstable or present a hazard.
  2. Gather your personal belongings such as glasses, prescription medication, keys, purse.
2 Quickly evacuate the building using the nearest door marked with an EXIT sign.
  1. Do not use elevators.
  2. Go to the nearest safe stairway.
  3. Help those who need special assistance, such as disabled persons and small children.
  4. Touch closed doors before opening. If the surface is hot, do not open — use another exit route.
  5. Close, but do not lock, all doors as you leave.
3 Report to your designated assembly area.
  1. Stay in your designated assembly area for a head count.
  2. Report any missing individuals and last known locations to emergency responders.
  3. Notify emergency responders about sensitive research, operating equipment, animals left in buildings, etc.
4 Wait for instructions from emergency responders.
  1. Remain outside at your designated assembly area.
  2. Do not reenter the building until authorized to do so by an appropriate authority (police, fire department, etc.).




Questions? Contact EH&S Fire & Life Safety, (858) 822-5706.


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