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To Assist Visually Impaired Persons

1. Explain the nature of the emergency. Alarms or confusion may disorient a person, even when normally familiar with the area.
2. Guide the student (or provide someone to do so). Students will take the guide's arm below the elbow and will follow.
3. Tell the student where you are as you walk.
4. Advise of any obstacles in the path.
5. When you have reached safety: Orient the person to where he or she is and ask if any further assistance is needed before leaving.

To Assist Hearing Impaired Persons
If you must get a person's attention:

1. Flash room lights.
2. Wave your arms.
3. Tap person's shoulder.
4. Gesture what is happening and what to do.
5. Write on board or paper: Nature of emergency & evacuation route.

To Assist Mobility Impaired Persons

1. Always ask students first if they have special needs or requirements.
2. Individuals using wheelchairs can be pushed or accompanied to safety.
3. Individuals using canes, crutches, or walkers should evacuate themselves except in the event that rapid evacuation is deemed essential.
4. Call Public Safety, Disability Support Services or other trained college personnel and wait for help before transferring a person from a wheelchair or transporting a person on a stairway, unless the situation is imminently life threatening.
5. Wheelchairs for emergency use are located in PE 13 and Health Services.
6. Special evacuation chairs may be used for stairway evacuation or to transport injured or non-ambulatory persons. These are mounted near the stairwells in:
   • Library: Chair located 2nd floor at top of main stair well
   • Language Arts: Chair located 2nd floor between restrooms on wall
   • Humanities: Chair located 2nd floor top of East stair well
   • Speech Arts & Music: Chair located on top floor middle hallway, West wall
   • Math & Science: Chair located 2nd floor hallway to door 107
   • Industrial Technology: Chair located at top of stairs well on wall next to elevator
   • Learning Center: Chair located at top of stair well on the north wall
   • Public Safety Office: Chair located inside Public Safety briefing room
   • Gymnasium: Chair is located on the top of north west stair well to Gym floor on wall