OBJECTIVE: To establish a plan of action to be taken in the event of a bomb threat.
All employees have the responsibility to familiarize themselves with the following procedures and be prepared to react to a bomb threat in a calm, systematic and expeditious manner.
Employees should review bomb threat procedures yearly to familiarize themselves.
“Handling The Bomb Threat” telephone procedure cards will be placed under all office telephones, or posted in a conspicuous place near all telephones.
Upon the arrival of emergency responders a system of Incident Command is set up. The incident commander is in direct control of all activities within the facility. Until the Incident Commander gives the “all clear” the facility is off limits to all employee.
HOW TO HANDLE THE THREAT
An employee who receives a telephone bomb threat should obtain as much information as possible as indicated on the telephone card and then immediately:
Contact 9-1-1 (You must first dial a “9”)......9-911
Assign an employee to go door to door to notify all personnel to initiate evacuation procedures. (If the caller did not specify which area of the building the bomb is in all personnel must look around their area for unusual packages.)
Look around your work area for unusual packages before evacuating.
Complete “Handling the Bomb Threat” card after evacuating to the off-site assembly area.
Notify Incident Command of the information filled out on your card.
Any employee who receives a written bomb threat should secure all materials, including envelopes or containers (handle as little as possible)
Call your supervisor if available to determine the following action
Contact 9-1-1 (You must first dial a “9”)......9-911
Assign an employee to go door to door to notify all personnel to initiate evacuation procedures.
Notify Incident Command of the location of the written threat.
Any employee who finds a suspicious container, package, envelope, box, etc.
Call your supervisor if available to determine the following action
Contact 9-1-1 (You must first dial a “9”).....9-911 OVER------->
Assign an employee to go door to door to notify all personnel to initiate evacuation procedures.
Notify Incident Command of the location of the package.
DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS
BOMB THREAT EVACUATION PROCEDURE:
Each department shall establish a (safety) representative for all County facilities.
Each representative will locate an off-site assembly area no less than 300 ft from their facility.
The representative from each area shall be responsible to account for each employee within that section and account for their arrival at the assembly area.
If a bomb threat is called into a County facility without a specific location of the bomb a representative from the person receiving the threat shall be assigned to go door to door to notify personnel to initiate evacuation procedures and check your work area for unusual packages before exiting. If an unusual package is in your specific area notify Incident Command immediately (room number, type of package, location of package, etc.)
Bomb threat evacuation routes shall be the same as fire evacuation routes posted on safety bulletin boards throughout County buildings.
All employees are to immediately evacuate the work area (take your purse & car keys) and proceed to their pre-assigned assembly area. ALL OFFICE DOORS ARE TO BE CLOSED AND LEFT UNLOCKED.
Employees will remain at the off-site assembly area until given the “all clear”.
DO NOT USE FIRE ALARM TO NOTIFY EVACUATION UNLESS TIME OF DETINATION DOES NOT PERMIT. i.e.,”A bomb is going off within two minutes.”
DO NOT USE RADIOS OR CELLULAR PHONES AS A FORM OF COMMUNICATION DURING A BOMB THREAT(They can trigger a bomb device.)
NOTES:
Any questions call MONROE COUNTY SAFETY OFFICE 292-4456
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