The following is a list of tornado safe areas as determined by the Blue Ash Fire Department. Signs will be posted in these areas throughout the building to designate the safest areas. Watch for these signs! Look for the “Tornado Safe Area” signs. The 4″ by 4″ signs are red with white lettering.
The RWC Public Safety Office will, when notified of a tornado sighting, use the fire alarm speakers/horns located on all floors. At this time, students, faculty, staff, and visitors should find a safe area. If you have a handicapped person in your classroom/area, their safety should be insured by faculty or their designee assist them to the safe area.
The primary goal during a tornado warning is to get to a first floor safe area. If that is not possible, look for the spaces marked on your floor.
Become familiar with the designated areas near your classrooms so that in the event of a tornado you will know the closest safe area to your location. Move to a designated area.
TORNADO “SAFE” AREAS:
MUNTZ 3RD FLOOR
The main objective is to get down to the First Floor from the Third Floor. If this is not possible, the following areas are the safest.
The hallway between the faculty offices, room numbers 300-305, but all doors must be closed.
Rooms 306, 307, 308, 309 are to be funneled to the stairwell by Commercial Art (Room 330).
Interior bathrooms. (Gender does not matter. Go to the nearest interior bathroom).
The hallway between the faculty offices, room numbers 310 through 323, as long as the doors to the faculty offices are closed. Faculty offices 311, 313, 315, 317, 319, 321, 323 inside with the doors closed.
The end of the hall stairwell around room 330.
The stairwell at the end of the hall near room 356.
The stairwell near room 365.
MUNTZ 2ND FLOOR
The main object is to get down to the First Floor from the second floor. If this is not possible, the following areas are the safest areas.
Rooms 200 through 214. The hallway is a possible safe area, as long as the doors are closed to all rooms and individuals stand so that they are not in direct line of any doors.
Interior bathrooms. (Gender does not matter. Go to the nearest interior bathroom).
Rooms 243, 244, 245 are safe areas if unlocked; if students are in the rooms when tornado alert is sounded, they should stay in the rooms. Close doors.
Room 252 is a safe area.
Interior stairwell by the Nursing Office, 248, is a safe area.
The end of the hall stairwell around from Room 218 (Media Services) is a safe area.
The stairwell at the end of the hall near Room 256 is a safe area.
MUNTZ 1ST FLOOR
The following areas are the safest areas on the first floor.
The basement is a safe area.
Room 151A and 151B, with the doors closed.
Rooms 152, 154, 155 (offices inside 155 B, C, D,E & F) are safe areas.
The food service area, rooms 146 and 147, is safe except near the windows.
The stairwells near Room 123 and Room 150.
Room 170, as well as 119.
Interior bathrooms are safe areas. (Gender does not matter. Go to nearest interior bathroom).
The library along the south wall, 112 along the north wall, restrooms 114, 116, and Room 118.
The corridor of Room 199, is also a safe area, except for the area between the skylights.
FLORY CENTER
Center rooms are safe areas.
The men’s and women’s bathrooms are safe areas.
SAHB
1st FLOOR – Rooms 103, 117, 119, Restrooms #145, 147, 149, 150, the radiology area of Dental Hygiene rooms 161D through 161H rooms, rooms 180, 182, 160A and 164.
2nd FLOOR – 220A, 230A, 240A, Restrooms #247 and 251, and the north wall in rooms 257A, 262 and 278.
3rd FLOOR – 310A, 310C, 303, Restrooms # 347 and 351, and rooms 350B, 362 and 378.
Vet Tech Building
Interior animal care rooms are safe.
Annex
Restrooms on lower level (130 & 132), and the basement are safe areas.
Remember: If you have an obstructed view of the outside, you are not safe. NO AREA is safe if the building receives a direct hit from a tornado.
(Revised August 2009; as listed in the 2009-2010 Faculty Handbook, pages 102-103)