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Originally Posted by BelgianSheepDog
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??
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At the college I goto they have alarms that flash. I am ussaly in the building where the asl instructor has her office too, so if she sees that I did not hear the alarm (I am hoh) she will sign something to me. That's ussaly not the case though because I can see the crowd runing out the door
I'm still a student so obviously I dont know about work enviroments, but maybe they can install alarms that flash? I think they would have to under ada would they not? One deaf girl I know informed me that some firedepartments will install flashing alarms for nothing, so it may not even cost most employers anything.