
Faculty and Staff Preparedness
Preparedness Checklist
- Sign up for zotALERT and make sure to update your contact information if it changes.
- Make or purchase an Emergency Supply Kit.
- Make an Emergency Plan with your family and/or friends in case you need to leave campus.
- Review the campus Emergency Operations Plan .
- Know the difference between shelter-in-place for hazardous materials incidents and secure-in-place for police related activity.
- Know the Zone Crew team members in your building.
- Learn relevant building evacuation routes, fire alarm pull-station locations, fire extinguisher locations, and assembly areas for buildings you are in most often.
- Know evacuation routes and pre-designated assembly areas for the buildings you are in most frequently. Be prepared to direct students to assembly areas in the event of an emergency.
- Faculty Members - Include the Emergency Preparedness Insert and the Classroom Emergency Procedures in all course syllabi.
Your Role During an Emergency
- Report an emergency or suspicious activity to UCIPD by calling 9-1-1 or 949-824-5223.
- Facilitate the appropriate response (e.g. Evacuation, Secure-In-Place, Shelter-In-Place).
- Provide assistance to injured/disabled individuals when possible.
- If you are called back to campus, return to campus as soon as possible.
- Assume your emergency response role (e.g. Suite/Lab Rep, Floor Warden, Building Coordinator, Zone Captain, EOC/DOC member, CSAR member, etc.) if you have one.
- Check-in with Department Head/Zone Captain. Report any missing personnel.
- Follow directions given by first responders.
Preparedness Resources