Fire drills

Most workplaces of any institutional dimension such as Texas State will conduct fire drills. This past week, however, the drills have been unplanned. Thanks to an alleged water leak in the basement of the building (business school), the alarm has evidently been going off rather unpredictably nearly every day for the last week. Staff and students file out and await notice that returning to the building is safe.

From a business communications perspective, I worried when I learned that the campus police were unaware of each new alarm. A member of staff, including yours truly, was calling to report the alarms. The implications are not difficult to contemplate. Let's hope that those in facilities maintenance correct the faulty system and that the IT components of the notification process are also repaired! Policy advice from Fireline (including cooking tips for the holidays).