XV. MTD SAFETY PLAN
The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors is of the utmost importance and should be considered by all university personnel. Below is a safety plan developed in consultation with the KSU Police Department. All faculty, staff, and students are automatically registered to receive K-State Alerts through multiple means (email, texts, and automated phone calls), students can confirm or update information in KSIS or employees can review and update information in HRIS.
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Resources:
KSU Police Department: 785-532-6412 or 911
Student Support & Accountability: 785-532-6432
Civil Rights & Title IX (CRIX): 785-532-6220
Center for Advocacy, Response and Education: (CARE): 785-532-6444
The Crisis Center: 785-539-2785
Ascension Via Christi Hospital: 785-776-3322
Lafene Student Health Center: 785-532-6544
Family Center: 785-532-6984
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS): 785-532-6927
All-purpose reporting website for Kansas State University
Emergency Situations:
In emergency situations, students will look to faculty and staff for guidance in dealing with a given situation. Faculty and staff should feel empowered to assess the situation and use their best judgment in keeping everyone safe. The KSU police Department advocates the “ALiCE” concepts, designed to give individuals or groups in violent, life-threatening situations mental and physical tools that may help them survive.
Alert: Notify law enforcement and others who may be in danger through any means possible.
Lockdown: Use available resources to barricade and secure your location. Do not be static and passive. Make a plan for what’s next.
inform: Utilize all available information to decide how to respond to a critical situation. As the situation changes, your response may need to change. Continue to communicate throughout the entirety of the event.
Counter: If you encounter the intruder, decrease their effectiveness by moving and throwing objects. Fight if you must, use any means necessary.
Evacuate: Removing yourself from a dangerous situation is the goal. If possible, get yourself and others away from the crisis location.
Not every option will be used in every situation, and options may or may not be used in the order they appear.
The School will work to periodically schedule ALiCE training for MTD faculty and staff. Additionally, the KSU Police Department offers ALiCE training for the entire campus community throughout the year. Faculty and staff are highly encouraged to take part in this training.
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Tornado:
McCain: All individuals should move to the basement.
Nichols: All individuals should move to the basement to internal rooms that do not have windows to the outside.
West Stadium: All individuals should move inside the Purple Masque Theatre.
All Faiths Chapel: All individuals should move to the McCain basement.
Fire or Bomb Threat:
All individuals should evacuate the building to the nearest exit. If it is safe given the situation, everyone should congregate to the locations listed below in “Emergency Evacuations.”
Lockdown:
If the situation necessitates the need to “lockdown” in a classroom or office, lock the classroom if
possible, barricade the door with furniture, and move away from any doors or windows.
Emergency Evacuations:
If it is safe given the situation, everyone in McCain, Nichols, and All Faiths Chapel who need to evacuate the building are encouraged to congregate in the lawn in front of the main entrance of Anderson Hall. Anyone in West Stadium should congregate in Bosco Plaza outside the K-State Union.
MTD administrators will account for faculty and staff, and faculty will account for students in their classes.
At no time should anyone go back to an evacuated building until authorities give an all clear notification (even if people are suspected of remaining).
Unless the situation necessitates, no one should attempt to leave campus via a motor vehicle, as roadways and campus entrances could be blocked, preventing emergency personnel from coming to campus.
Emergency Notification:
In the event of an emergency evacuation, emergency notifications may not be heard in some offices. This necessitates assigned individuals to ensure that offices have been evacuated if it is deemed safe by that individual to do so (and if that individual is in the building assigned to them at the time of the emergency). Even with this notification procedure, it is important that individuals are aware of weather conditions (particularly in the spring).
Emergency Notification Assignments (8-5 only*):
*Individuals in MTD facilities outside of these hours should be prepared to move to appropriate locations depending upon the circumstances.
McCain
Division Head of Music Education (Ruth Gurgel): Basement & 2nd floor
002, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, 009, 010, 011, 012, 013, 014, 015, 016, 020A, 020B, 020C, 021, 022
201, 202, 204, 216, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 227A, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235
Office Specialist II (Kayla Engel): 1st floor & 3rd floor
101, 104, 105, 107, 112, 115, 120, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 307, 308, 309, 310, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328A
Nichols
Associate Director for Theatre (David Mackay), Associate Director for Dance (Kate Digby), and/or Technical Director (Patrick Reading): 1st and 2nd floor
101, 102, 107, 118, 119, 122, 124, 127, 131, 133 (Chapman Theatre), 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 244
Associate Director for Facilities (James Davis): Basement
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22, 24, 26
All Faiths Chapel: Scene Shop Supervisor (George Wame Matthews)
West Stadium
Director Drama Therapy Program (Michelle Yadon)
101 (Lobby), 106 (Purple Masque Theatre), 108, 109, 117
Band Hall
Director of Bands (Frank Tracz)
First Aid Kits:
All classrooms should have first-aid kits that should only be used in a medical emergency. Students who need a bandage should come to the MTD office in 109 McCain. If you teach in a classroom that does not have a first-aid kit or a first-aid kit needs to be resupplied, please contact the MTD office in 109 McCain.