Faculty/Stafi Directory - Directories - University of Cincinnati

Emergency Phone Numbers
Emergency Services, Public Safety, 513-556-4909 http://www.uc.edu/publicsafety/fire_emergency.html
FOR ALL EMERGENCIES................................... 911
TDD/TTY (Emergency & Non-Emergency)........................513-556-9933
Non-Emergencies (Public Safety) ................................513-556-1111
SERVICE NUMBERS
DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE
FROM ON CAMPUS............................................................. 0
FROM OFF-CAMPUS.......................................513-556-6000
TELEPHONE REPAIR ................................513-556-HELP(4357)
UCIT HELP DESK .......................................513-556-HELP(4357)
WORK CONTROL
Blue Ash............................................................513-745-5708
Clermont............................................................513-732-5230
Uptown - East....................................................513-558-2500
Uptown - West...................................................513-558-2500
Victory Parkway Campus..................................513-558-2500
After Hours ........................................................513-556-1111
Emergency Text Messaging
UC offers an emergency text messaging service to all students, faculty, and staff. At the discretion of UC Public
Safety, the system will be utilized only if there is an imminent situation where the safety and security of the
campus community is at risk or to announce a weather-related university closing. For more details see:
http://www.uc.edu/publicsafety/police/CampusSafetyNetwork.html
Emergency Procedures
In an emergency:
1. Call 911 using any phone and report the problem. Give the telephone number from which you are calling
and your exact location—Building, floor, and room number.
2. If there’s smoke or a fire, pull the fire alarm to get everyone who is able out of the building. Do not use
elevators. Go to assigned outside assembly area. If there is a serious contamination problem, pull the
fire alarm to get everyone outside.
3. Relocate/evacuate those in immediate danger. Disabled persons are to assemble in defined rescue
areas preferably a room with an external window, phone, and solid door.
4. Assign one staff person to relay information to others.
5. If a tornado warning, go to the tornado safe area for your building (i.e., basement, interior hallway, nonglass
stairwell).
6. If a bomb threat, complete the bomb threat checklist below.
Bomb Threat Checklist
1. Remain calm, do not interrupt the caller. Note time of call. Note phone number where the call was received.
2. As best you can, write down the exact words of the caller.
3. What did the voice sound like? (angry, raspy, stutter, whispered, excited, drunken, male, female, etc.)
4. Any background sounds? (airplanes, cars, office machines, static, beepers, voices)
5. Area threatened? Area name used by the caller?
6. Threat language? (educated, foul, incoherent, irrational, taped, or message read)
7. Your name and telephone number, and location.
8. Call 911.