Emergency information
Personal emergency preparedness
There are practical matters you can do right now to keep yourself safe and improve your preparedness for any emergency: These are:
- Ensure your emergency backpack is stocked and “ready to go”. The bright orange backpacks contain emergency information as well as some emergency items. Staff are encouraged to add their own emergency items to the backpack for their personal use at work and to use the information provided in the backpacks to develop emergency plans at home.
- Keep your emergency contacts in the ”Yourself Portal” up to date.
- If you are at work after hours or alone follow the personal safety tips in the Working After Hours Policy and Procedures.
How to stock emergency backpack (359 KB)Know what to do and how to assist students, colleagues and guests
- Know what to do and where to assemble for each kind of emergency. It is up to staff to convey emergency information to students, visitors or new colleagues. Campus specific presentations for students are available from Campus Health and Safety Advisors, or can be downloaded. You will need to supplement the presentations with evacuation assembly point information for the room you give the presentation in. The information is displayed near each fire alarm call point in each room, or can be obtained from the emergency plans below.
- In each lecture room and in major buildings in there should be a flip chart that contains essential information on what to do in various kinds of emergencies. You should be familiar with these, especially if you are in change of visitors or students in that place when an emergency occurs. The flip charts are underpinned by more technically detailed campus specific emergency plans detailed below.
University emergency management response planning
Each campus has a comprehensive Emergency Response Plan and trained staff, to enable a timely and appropriate response to foreseeable emergencies.
In 2010 the Risk Manager, sponsored by the AVC and University Registrar initiated a University-wide project to review and enhance emergency management planning at Massey University This review has commenced, and will be completed by mid-year.
Information on hazardous chemicals
Access to safety data sheets on chemicals and what to do in emergency situations such as a spill, accidental poisoning. Only available to Massey staff and students.
