Emergency procedures 
In an emergency situation:
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- Listen to any messages on the Public Address system
- Obey wardens or the Fire Brigade
- Assist users with disabilities
- Evacuate the Library, entry bridge, plaza, and surrounding stairs
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- Remove books from the Library
- Use the lifts
- Go back into the Library until an announcement is made that it is safe to do so
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Know your wardens
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Title
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Helmet
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Chief Warden
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White
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Warden
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Red
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Public Address system
- Alert tone
- When you hear the Alert tone (a series of long beeps), please collect your belongings, prepare to evacuate, and wait for further instructions.
- Evacuation tone
- The Evacuation tone follows the Alert tone. A recorded message will follow announcing that the evacuation should proceed under the direction of the wardens. The Evacuation tone will then resume sounding.
Leave the Library by the nearest exit, as directed by the wardens.
- After hours
- The system will immediately go into evacuation mode. Leave the building by the nearest exit, as directed by the wardens.
- Users with disabilities
- Users whose disability may make it difficult to use the emergency exits should notify the librarian at the Information desk of their presence in the building, and of their likely movements within the Library. This will aid in your speedy evacuation in an emergency, and is especially important in the evening and at weekends when fewer people are in the Library.
- Reporting an emergency
- If you see or hear a potential hazard please report the nature and location of the problem immediately to the Information desk on Level 3.
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Prepared by:
Health, Safety & Security Committee
Barr Smith Library
University of Adelaide
Telephone: 8303 5370
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