Emergency Action Plans (EAPs) are designed to facilitate and organize actions during workplace emergencies, particularly those that require evacuation. Each administrative and academic building has an EAP that identifies a building organization consisting of Building and Area Marshals, primary and secondary evacuation routes, as well as meeting areas where building occupants should go for accountability purposes. The building specific EAPs are maintained by the Building and Area Marshals. All the Building EAPs follow the same format. The Basic EAP here includes information that everyone should know, including how to report an emergency, how to evacuate a building, how to take shelter in a building, and other actions for hazards like an armed intruder and hazardous material emergencies.

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What to do in an emergency

We each have a responsibility to know how to respond in an emergency. In addition to knowing how to report an emergency, the three basic things you need to know are: