Emergency Management

Emergency Management

Alert levels explained

Level 1

Full activation of the UC Emergency Response Organisation
High impact event
Life and/or property at risk
Large area affected (City/Province)
Business interruption Longer term (longer than one day)

Examples

  • Severe weather event
  • Major earthquake
  • Violent event/Active shooter on campus
  • Major fire
  • Pandemic

Level 2

Partial activation of the UC Emergency Response Organisation
Medium impact event
Life and/or property at risk
Campus only affected
Some outside services involved
Some disruption to normal UC operations
Medium term (within one day)

Examples

  • Marginal weather event predicted
  • Minor/medium earthquake
  • Off campus incident (Field Stations)
  • Off campus accident involving UC staff or students
  • Hazardous substance alert
  • Fire
  • Flooding
  • Bomb threat
  • Planned protest event of large scale
  • Pandemic pre-notification

Level 3

Normal Day-to-Day operations (on-going monitoring)
Small impact incidents
Part of campus only affected
Short term (less than five hours)

Examples

  • Minor accidents/incidents on campus
  • Traffic disruptions
  • Infrastructure Failure