Educational Facilities Disaster and Crisis Management Guidebook.

INTRODUCTION
As a facility manager, you should be aware of your board’s
policies and procedures. If equipment such as metal detectors
or metal detecting wands are used in your school or community
college to prevent gun violence, you should be aware of your
role, if any, in maintaining this equipment.
Africanized Bees
In 1956, researchers imported honeybees from Africa into
Brazil in an effort to improve beekeeping in the New World
tropics. These African bees were well suited to conditions in
Brazil, and they began colonizing South America, hybridizing
with European honeybees (hence the name "Africanized"
honeybees) and displacing the European bees. Compared to
docile European bees, Africanized honeybees are extremely
defensive. Large numbers of them may sting people and
livestock with little provocation. They also take over European
colonies by entering them and killing the resident queen.
Africanized bees are sometimes called “Killers Bees,” not
because of their stings but because they attack in massive
swarms and can cause death. They eventually migrated to the
United States in 1990 and are now found in much of the South.
Precautions to take:
# Use caution with power mowers - bees are
sensitive to low-frequency vibrations; an enginedriven
lawn mower may elicit a defense response
from a hive or swarm.
# Walk with care in clover and near picnic sites.
# Avoid perfume, cologne, and scented cosmetics;
foraging bees will seek out floral scents.
# Beware of head-butting bees. Honeybees usually
have a small number of sentry bees patrolling the
perimeter of the hive's territory. In some if not
most cases, these sentry bees will initially butt (not
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