IU Emergency Management and Continuity (IUEMC) assists departments and campuses with developing, maintaining, and implementing emergency operations plans, developing and conducting exercises, hazard and risk education, and building partnerships with external response agencies. IUEMC is responsible for assisting with and coordinating the university’s overarching mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery programs.
Emergency response and evacuation procedures are documented in the campus Comprehensive Emergency Management Plans and Emergency Procedures and Building Emergency Action Plans. Evacuation route maps are posted in hallways throughout campus buildings. Procedures for potential emergencies can be found at: https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/emergency-situations/index.html.
The procedures the University will take to alert the community are outlined in the “Campus Wide Notifications” section of this report. Specific to emergency alerts, upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students and/or employees, the university will immediately notify the campus community through the use of an emergency alert. Confirmation may be achieved through on-call response from police, security, or university administration, the review of camera footage in the area the emergency was allegedly reported, among other possibilities afforded to the Public Safety team.
If an alert is warranted, they are generally distributed to the entire campus community, regardless of location or incident. However, on rare occasions, the incident management team may segment the population that received the alert. The incident management team will review persons involved and if the entirety of the campus community would not benefit from an alert, university administration may deliver the message to only those affected by the incident. The message would be delivered as outlined in the “Emergency Alert” section of this report.
