With other IU employees, we seek to acquaint you with the following emergency plans. This will help us implement an "Emergency Action Plan for Ballantine Hall" that has been constructed with the assistance of campus Risk Management. In an emergency situation, some Ballantine Hall safety officers will wear green safety vests, and may use bullhorns to help inform you and manage the situation. Please cooperate fully with the safety officers.

In Case of Tornado

Inside Ballantine Hall, it is virtually impossible to hear the siren that the County Emergency personnel sound to warn of an impending tornado. Staff members who work in Ballantine have agreed to notify students and instructors when we become aware of a tornado warning.

To protect you and your students from possible injury from strong winds and debris should a tornado move through campus, we ask you to usher your students from your classroom into the hallway or main lobby of this floor, as space is available . If your classroom is BH 011, 109 or 310, we ask that you keep your students in the room and, as empty seats are available, accept additional students from the hallway until the room is full. Please make sure your classroom door is closed when the last person leaves. The overriding aim here is to keep away from outside windows.

As we will not have any time to discuss or debate the matter once we are notified about a tornado alert, we ask you to channel any questions you have about this procedure to the Ballantine Hall Safety Committee: bhsafety@indiana.edu

In Case of Fire

When the fire alarm sounds, our main goal is to protect you and your students from possible injury. You and your students must evacuate the building right away. We strongly urge you to lead your students out of the building together and to move your students far enough away from the building to facilitate free and easy passage of those coming behind you from the building. We cannot have people backed up in the stairwells because others block the door once outside the building. This has happened during evacuations before, and many people were caught in a stairwell or hall for an unsafe period of time. If you are hearing impaired or unable to assist in an evacuation, please let the building Safety Officers know this.

In Case of Medical Emergency

If there is a medical emergency, call 9-911 (campus phone) or 911 (cell phone) immediately. Send someone to meet the emergency responders at the globe on the ground floor. Emergency first aid kits are located in BH 121, 132, 206, and 307. An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is located in BH121 (phone 855-8383).