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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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My work I usually informed my co worker (emergency volunteer) to focus finding me first foremost in case of emergency also they gave me a pager that whenever the fire alarm goes off it'll vibrates and reads that to leave the building... and you can see people going out all at once... most you will get paged if it's a false alarm it just a practice we have to do once every so often so people don't forget what to do..
Speaking of fire alarms, what about smoke alarms and carbon mioxide (I'm located in canada and having a hard time finding these two devices that can be hooked up to my blackberry not the sound cause my mom is deaf as well or something to be put up in my home) any help in this would be appreciated.. thanks ...