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• Inform customers, members of the public and all persons present that are not staff members that
the bell is an alarm bell and that they will need to leave the premises. If in a public area, direct
them immediately to the nearest exit; otherwise, they should be evacuated along with staff.
• If time allows, place important documents and items of value in safes, fireproof or secure storage
cabinets, close drawers, presses, and filing cabinets, log off personal computer terminals, switch
off electrical equipment / appliances, and pick up any important records that you have been pre-
designated to take with you in such an event.
• If time allows, close any windows and doors (other than those which will be needed for the
evacuation) in your vicinity. [Open windows and doors can fuel flames and hinder containment of
the cause of the emergency, in particular fire, smoke and fumes.]
• If time allows, take with you any portable personal belongings (such as jackets, bags). [This is
particularly important in the case of bomb scares, where their removal will cut down on the
number of items which may need to be treated as suspicious and investigated.] Do not take with
you anything which may hinder your or others' evacuation.
• Make your way towards the exits (indicated with the green running man exit signage). Wait for a
change in the alarm bell to continuous ringing, or further instruction from an authoritative source.
Authoritative sources in cases of emergency are members of the emergency services, your fire
wardens, facilities management personnel and the PA (public announcement) (telephones)
system.
• If the alarm bell changes to a continuous ringing, evacuate the premises immediately:
− Leave the building at once - by the nearest exit, unless otherwise indicated by an
announcement from an authoritative source.
− Listen for and follow any instructions from the emergency authoritative sources. (If told not
to use a particular evacuation route, it may be because the route has been rendered
dangerous or is blocked.)
− Do not run.
− Do not use the lifts.
− Do not use revolving doors or other mechanisms reliant on the power supply. not got to the
cloak-area or anywhere else off your evacuation route.
− Do not push. You should expect that others will be using the same evacuation route. not linger.
− Do not return to your work station for any reason.
− Do not attempt to remove your car from the parking area of the premises.

• Leave by going directly downstairs and out through the street exit/s - unless your route is found
to be blocked or dangerous or has been so indicated by authoritative source/s. If such is the case,
use the most direct alternative evacuation route.
• Go directly to your designated emergency assembly point. Take account of directions issued by
your Fire Warden at the assembly point. Please try to organise yourselves by floor and then into
fire warden groups to assist in roll-call accounting. Floor assembly points will be indicated by hi
visibility signs and should be in sequence with the lowest floors furthest away from the building.
• Report as soon as possible to the fire warden for your area / department. (You should be at the
assembly point before or with your fire warden.) Report any visitors evacuated with you to the
fire warden. Report any injuries or casualties at once.
• Keep off the road at the Assembly Point. Spread out as much as possible along the pavement
rather than spilling into the road.

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