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Tornado safety signs going up on Main Campus |
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Chelsea-Lynn Carey |
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May 15, 2007 |
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The Department of Safety and Health has been posting new tornado safety signs around Main Campus.
Gary Jankowski, associate vice president for safety and health, said, “The intent is to locate a safe waiting area with mounted signs in every campus building, so each building will have a specific area to which to go for shelter.”
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| Gary Jankowski, associate vice president for safety and health, and Dr. Kaye Patten Wallace, vice president for student affairs, posed for a photo by one of the tornado safe waiting area signs in Ottawa House West on Main Campus. |
Jankowski said that the locations for the signs are ideally on the ground floor or basement of the building, but if that is not possible they are usually placed in areas that have no nearby window and are not close to an outside wall.
If an individual is unable to reach one of the marked safety areas during a tornado, Jankowski said it is best to get to the lowest level of the building and take shelter in an interior part of the building away from windows and try to take cover under a desk or cabinet to protect from debris.
“In the past, there has been no such clear and precise delineation of exactly where to go in a tornado or sever weather situation,” Jankowski said. He believes the importance of the signs is to give people on Main Campus a safe place to seek shelter during severe weather.
The Health Science Campus had tornado safety signs posted in the last two years, according to Jankowski.
He said Health and Safety originally ordered 100 signs for the Main Campus but later had to order another 50.
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