Incidents and Emergencies

Emergency Preparedness

Building Emergency Action Plan (BEAP)
A building-specific document designed to assist building occupants with their emergency planning and response efforts. Contact your supervisor or building facility contact to find your BEAP.

How to Prepare
Aside from reviewing the above documents, it is important to know what to expect and how to react in case of an emergency situation.

• Information on what to expect when calling 911 for a police response - Calling 911 UIPD (PPT Presentation).
• Information on what to expect when calling 911 for a laboratory emergency - Calling 911 Urbana FD (1hr video).

Additionally, the university offers resources and training to ensure you can help prevent and are prepared for emergency situations.

• Read DRS' Emergency Preparedness page, which discusses spill kits, emergency eyewashes and showers, fire extinguishers, and the BEAP.
• UIPD publishes an Emergency Response Guide with steps you can take in the event of various kinds of emergencies.
• Schedule an active shooter presentation with UIPD; link to a recent presentation (requires UIUC login).
• Take the DRS provided Fire Extinguisher Training.
• Take the DRS provided Chemical Spills Training.

First Aid, CPR, and AED training
You may also be interested in coordinating a voluntary First Aid, CPR, and AED Training within your department or work group. This voluntary training prepares you and your team for medical emergencies in your workplace and outside of it.

The training is offered in a blended format (online course followed by hands-on activity). To complete the training, participants first take the American Heart Association’s online course** followed by a hands-on session on campus through the Jump Simulation Center. Please reach out to Shandra Jamison, Simulation Center Manager, to schedule the hands-on session, which may be held in Everitt Lab or at another campus location. A separate fee is associated with the hands-on session to obtain the course completion card.

** If this training is required by your job description, please consult with your supervisor to ensure that you are taking the appropriate training.

Spill Prevention and Response

Preventing Spills
As with all incidents, best practices is to put in safeguards to mitigate the possibility of one occurring.

Responding to Spills

Call 911 immediately in the event of a complicated chemical spill. If you are unsure if a spill is a complicated spill, call 911.

Responding to spills will differ based on the amount and type of material involved. DRS has provided the following resources to handle some simple spills.

• Chemicals
• Biological Materials
• Radioactive Materials

Spill Kit Materials can be acquired at most of the campus storerooms or from your preferred vendor.