EARTHQUAKE PROCEDURE

Signals
Alarm: Intercom Announcement
All Clear: All call announcement

Teacher/Staff Responsibilities
A. Drop, Cover and Hold: In Building
1. Staff and students find a safe place, under desks, door arches, or tables.
2. Staff and students drop, cover and hold through the initial shock.
3. Move away from windows or glass.
4. Check self, students, and other staff members for injuries.
5. Staff and students remain where they are, under cover, until shaking has
stopped.

Outside of Building:
1. Staff and students remain away from building, trees, electrical wires, and
other elevated objects that may fall and scatter debris. Staff and students
should drop and cover heads.

B. Secure your area:

1. E mail a report medical emergencies, injuries, or important information to
Administration.
2. Remain in classroom with students until informed.

C. Evacuate: If Building is Evacuated

1. Staff turn off lights and lock doors.
2. Staff take Emergency Folder, Emergency Procedures Packet, grades, and car
keys.
3. Staff evacuate students out of the building.
4. If there is a need to evacuate the building route, evacuate by the safest route.
Injured persons are helped to evacuate if possible.
5. If you have someone injured severely enough that they cannot evacuate
make them as comfortable as possible, note and mark their location, and
report it to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) as soon as possible
for rescue and/or aid. If possible have a staff member stay with the trapped
or injured individual.
6. Emergency Evacuation Procedures are followed.
7. If normal evacuation routes are blocked staff members select as safe an
alternate route as possible.

D. Attendance
1. Complete the Student Accounting form and have ready for area captain.
2. Staff please account for any student who is not with a staff member and keep
them with you. Please add them to your Student Accounting form.
E. Injuries
1. The location of any person trapped/injured and not able to evacuate is
marked and reported to the EOC by radio or runner as soon as possible. The
first priority is evacuation.
2. Injured persons are treated in the assembly area or evacuated to the first aid
station as necessary

F. Students remain in the class group where they were accounted for and not
released except through the Student Release Team at the EOC.

G. Students and staff remain in the evacuation area until released by the EMT.

H. Evacuation – Use Emergency Evacuation Procedure