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As a community with over eighteen thousand students and a large number of faculty and staff, the University is subject to a large number of crisis situations. A major emergency/disaster is declared when an incident has the potential to interrupt the normal activities of the University for an extended period of time. Some crisis may be systemic, in that they affect the whole community. |
Examples include:
| Hazardous materials (i.e. chemical, gas, poison, etc.) |
| Utility (i.e. loss of fire alarm protection/communication systems/heating/cooling/water, mass blackout/brownout, etc.) |
| Structural (i.e. fire, explosion, collapse) |
| Civil disorder (i.e. demonstration, explosives, bomb threat, hostage, terrorist activities) |
| Transportation (i.e. aircraft crash, vehicle crash, derailment) |
| Natural events (i.e. snow/ice storm, tornado, flood, landslide, earthquake) |
| These incidents are managed by the Campus Control Group (see members in Emergency Plan. |
| On the other end of the scale, a crisis may revolve around a specific individual, although the situation may impact on a sector of the broader community. Examples include student suicide or assault. These situations are handled through the Crisis Management Team. |
The University's Complete Emergency Management Plan can be found here.
The University's Complete Pandemic Plan can be found here.
In the case of a crisis where
University staff and personnel are directly affected,
then the Employee Assistance Program of the University
can be activated. This service provides staff who
are experiencing a personal issue to be able to
receive personal counselling through an EAP provider. |
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