[Evac-Net] Crossing Guard Training - Thursday 10:00 am at State Library

[NIES Robert A * DAS RISK]

REMINDER:

Crossing Guard Training is on Thursday at 10:00.  We have a few spots
available. Contact Luella Ackerson at the above email address or call
her at 503-373-0706 to reserve spaces.

 

Target audience:  Evacuation Coordinators who lead building occupants
across a busy street during an emergency evacuation. Trainees learn how
to stop traffic to get people quickly and safely across the street. (If
you also send a backup to be trained for each Crossing Guard, your
agency will be prepared for when your primary guards are out of the
office. 

 

Based on the large turnout that came for the Feb 17 session, we reserved
a larger room this time. DAS Risk is covering the expenses to bring in
the outside trainer; hence, there is no charge to your agency. Here are
the specifics.

 

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Emergency Evacuation

CROSSING GUARD TRAINING

    by Dave White, former Safety Manager of ODOT

Thursday, April 7

10:00 to 12:00 noon

Room 103

Oregon State Library

250 Winter St NE

                                                

SECs, are there people from your building trained to safely stop
traffic? Are they still there or have they moved on? After receiving
this email in 2001, we offered the training we had in 1998. We've now
been requested to offer it in 2005.

 

"I noticed that evacuation personnel from the Revenue Building had stop
signs and clothing that identified them to be in an official capacity
and were not letting traffic go by on Capitol Street. This allowed the
people exiting the building to walk directly across the street and into
the parking lot. For our building, people bunched up at the cross walks
waiting for the light to change.  Some people were trying to control
traffic at the intersection of Capitol and Marion to allow people to
cross Capitol without stopping. They were wearing nothing that indicated
that they were doing this in an official capacity. Is there a way to
divert traffic in an evacuation situation off of Capitol so that people
evacuating our building can go directly into the parking lot without
having to deal with vehicular traffic?"

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