CFL Student Employee Training

Seniors may ask a staff member to fill these out. However, you are required to know how to use them and under which circumstances.

Please review this under the First Things First, Safety Training tab.

Tornadoes are fairly common to the Midwest. Knowing what to do ensures everyone remains calmer and safe.

• Facilities should call to tell you if there is a WATCH or a WARNING
  • Watch: Issued hours before the incident may happen. Does not mean one will develop, but to be careful.
  • Warning: either a tornado has been spotted or a radar has picked one up
• Make the appropriate announcement on the PA panel - the wording is posted!
  • Hold the speaker very close to your mouth as you do this.
  • Speak even slower than normal. At our normal speaking rate, the transmission will be murky. During an emergency, we speak even faster - all people in the library will hear is "Charlie Brown's teacher" voice - just random sounds.
• The second person runs the floors, letting people know they need to get to safety.
  • Your supervisor will go through steps to handle different patron interactions
  • notify Person 1 at the desk of anyone that is placed in a safe location
    • North Stairwell, first floor, closest to the IT desk.
    • Family friendly bathroom on first floor
    • Men's restrooms on each floor, NORTH wall only
• Get yourself to safety

You will be walked around at the end of your training to be sure you know where all fire exits and fire extinguishers are located.

You will be trained on how to appropriately and efficiently clear the building

Follow the same rules as tornado for clearing the floors. Your supervisor will go through a few extra steps for fires with you, including how to handle people that will not move.

• Fire Extinguisher types
• P.A.S.S.

  Workplace safety demonstration
• P.A.S.S.

  How to use the extinguishers

If you are not CPR / First Aid trained, you are not required to assist those in need. However, if you do assist untrained, you are protected under the Good Samaritan Law (ND Century Code CHAPTER 32-03.1):

No person, or the person's employer, subject to the exceptions in sections 32-03.1-03, 32-03.1-04, and 32-03.1-08, who renders aid or assistance necessary or helpful in the circumstances to other persons who have been injured or are ill as the result of an accident or illness, or any mechanical, external or organic trauma, may be named as a defendant or held liable in any personal injury civil action by any party in this state for acts or omissions arising out of a situation in which emergency aid or assistance is rendered, unless it is plainly alleged in the complaint and later proven that such person's acts or omissions constituted intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

As of September 2019, the American Heart Association asks that those providing CPR only do so with compressions, no mouth-to-mouth. Please watch the following video.

DO NOT MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, DO NOT PULL THE FIRE ALARM

The sound of a gun isn't like the movies. Sometimes it can sound like pops or popcorn. The most important factors in a situation like this are:

• Trust your instincts - even if it's nothing, it's better to be wrong and alive!
• Do not go explore the source of those sounds - call the police.

Profile: An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area, typically through the use of firearms.

Characteristics:

• Victims are selected at random
• the event is unpredictable and evolves quickly
• law enforcement is usually required to end an active shooter situation

• Crisis on Campus: Shots fired

  Describes what to do in an emergency active shooter situation: run. hide. fight.
• Run. Hide. Fight.

  This is the same video used by UND campus police for training.
  Be aware that with automatic lights in the building, Hide is no longer a safe option.
• Ohio State's Shooter Plan

  Read and watch the video.

Coping with an active shooter situation

• Be aware of your environment and any possible dangers
• Take note of the two nearest exits in any facility you visit
• If you are in an office, stay there and secure the door
• Attempt to take the active shooter down as a last resort
• This is one of the only times you are to NOT worry about anyone else, clearing the building, etc. Get out as soon as it's safe for you to do so and call 911 - this will ultimately save the lives of others.
• If you can provide any of this information, it will help law enforcement know:
  • Location of the active shooter
  • Number of shooters
  • Physical description of shooters
  • Number and type of weapons held by shooters
  • Number of potential victims at the location

How to respond when law enforcement arrives:

• Remain calm and follow instructions
• put down any items in your hands (i.e., bags, jackets, phones)
• Raise hands and spread fingers
• Keep hands visible at all times
• Avoid quick movements toward officers such as holding on to them for safety
• Avoid pointing, screaming or yelling
• Do not stop to ask officers for help or direction when evacuating

Bomb Threats can be stressful. Be aware of where our own questionnaire card is located. If you are unsure, speak to a supervisor. Watch the linked video to learn more.