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BelgianSheepDog · 10-25-2006, 08:22 AM

How does your office alert you to evacuations and "shelter in place"?

Where I work, there is an audiable alarm and a verbal announcemnt. Neither of which I can hear. There are some wimpy strobe lights in the halls and some rooms, it is hard to see the strobe unless you are actually looking at it. They set up a buddy system that does not work at all - often times durning the work day, I am the only person in the area. They have hall monitors who tend to be invisable :-) Yes, I have been left in the building during evacuations - real and drills.

Since my employer, Federal Government, does not seem to care, I took proactive action - I trained a hearing dog to alert me to the alarm. However, there is no way I can train the dog for the building-specific alarm, he is trained to alert me for the general alarm sound. It worked yesterday during a false alarm.

My question is, how are you alerted during emergencies??

10-25-2006, 08:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
BelgianSheepDog Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: VA Posts: 34	Fire alarms How does your office alert you to evacuations and "shelter in place"? Where I work, there is an audiable alarm and a verbal announcemnt. Neither of which I can hear. There are some wimpy strobe lights in the halls and some rooms, it is hard to see the strobe unless you are actually looking at it. They set up a buddy system that does not work at all - often times durning the work day, I am the only person in the area. They have hall monitors who tend to be invisable :-) Yes, I have been left in the building during evacuations - real and drills. Since my employer, Federal Government, does not seem to care, I took proactive action - I trained a hearing dog to alert me to the alarm. However, there is no way I can train the dog for the building-specific alarm, he is trained to alert me for the general alarm sound. It worked yesterday during a false alarm. My question is, how are you alerted during emergencies??