HEALTH AND SAFETY MANUAL
5.00 – EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS POLICY AND PROCEDURES
PURPOSE
Notwithstanding Sault College’s commitment to provide and sustain a safe and healthy work and study environment for all College constituents, pursuant to its Health and Safety Policy, the College recognizes that emergencies can arise. Sault College considers emergency preparedness to be of critical importance. Effective emergency preparedness ensures that the College, as a community, is able to rapidly respond to and efficiently recover from an emergency.
Should an emergency, either manmade or natural, occur, the integrity of the College’s work and study environment can be threatened or damaged. Sault College has an obligation to ensure that the threat or damage engendered by the emergency is minimized through effective and deliberate emergency management. The overall goal is to ensure the safety of staff, students and visitors.
POLICY STATEMENT
Sault College will undertake to manage emergencies in support of the following goals:
- Preservation of life and reduction of suffering
- Protection and restoration of property
- Restoration of all academic and administrative services
Sault College will define the activities which will be undertaken to effectively manage an emergency in terms of emergency preparedness, response and recovery through a comprehensive Emergency Plan structured according to accepted planning principles and consistent with prevailing emergency-related legislation. The Emergency Plan defines the activities that the College will undertake in preparing for, responding to and recovering from an emergency.
Sault College will implement the Emergency Plan through written Emergency Procedures which will outline operational activities, assign responsibilities and establish schedules with respect to emergency preparedness, response and recovery functions.
Further, in acknowledgement of the College’s role in the community and in the region, the College will, where possible, support the municipality, the region and the province in preparing for, responding to or recovering from an emergency.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
HS-5.01 Emergency Plan
HS-5.02 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
HS-5.03 Emergency Response Procedures for Normal Working Hours
HS-5.04 Emergency Response Procedures for Other than Normal Working Hours
HS-5.05 Procedures for Inclement Weather, Power Outage and Other Physical Disruptions
HS-5.06 Emergency Evacuation for Students with Mobility Disabilities HS-5.07A Bomb Threat Procedures
HS-5.07B Bomb Threat Report
HS-5.08 Suspicious Person or Threat Procedures
HS-5.09A Full Lockdown/Code Red - Armed Intruder Procedures
HS-5.09B Full Lockdown/Code Red Situation
HS-5.10 Emergency Procedures – Communications
HS-5.10A Emergency Telephone Communications HS-5.10B Sample Communiqués – Phone System
HS-5.10C Emergency Signage
HS-5.10D Sample Communiqués – Media
HS-5.11 Map of Main Campus
HS-5.12 Emergency Recovery Planning Guidelines
HS-5.13 Emergency Response Procedures – Sault College Child Development Centre
HS-5.14 Pandemic Influenza Plan