Emergency Response Team
Oct. 17th, 2007 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI've just returned from our initial meeting of the volunteer emergency response team in my particular office building. Very interesting...
We have a new director in our Office of Emergency Preparedness. The immediate goal is to obtain 250 volunteers from the 13 buildings my employer occupies in the greater DC area. The volunteers would assist building security in herding people out of the building or sheltering-in-place, whichever is determined by Security. Over the next several months, I'll be given additional training on how to assist bodies in moving between floors, assisting with drills, identifying potential issues, coordinating evacuations and such.
In my particular building, we need at least another dozen volunteers to provide complete building coverage and redundancy in case response team volunteers are not available.
I've updated my contact info in the contacts database. The bright yellow vests, the walkie-talkies and other materials will be arriving next week.
This is the most interesting thing that has happened to me at the office in weeks, which probably says something about how boring my job has become. It will be interesting, look good on a resume and can't hurt on my year-end performance evaluation, all while filling a useful role.
We have a new director in our Office of Emergency Preparedness. The immediate goal is to obtain 250 volunteers from the 13 buildings my employer occupies in the greater DC area. The volunteers would assist building security in herding people out of the building or sheltering-in-place, whichever is determined by Security. Over the next several months, I'll be given additional training on how to assist bodies in moving between floors, assisting with drills, identifying potential issues, coordinating evacuations and such.
In my particular building, we need at least another dozen volunteers to provide complete building coverage and redundancy in case response team volunteers are not available.
I've updated my contact info in the contacts database. The bright yellow vests, the walkie-talkies and other materials will be arriving next week.
This is the most interesting thing that has happened to me at the office in weeks, which probably says something about how boring my job has become. It will be interesting, look good on a resume and can't hurt on my year-end performance evaluation, all while filling a useful role.
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Date: 2007-10-17 06:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-17 09:10 pm (UTC)Spiff-EEE
does the kit come with a bullwhip and lessons on how to crack it overhead?
does it come with a bullhorn?
you're moving people between floors - will the company be installing Batpoles to speed up the body-transfer rate? or inflatable slides like on airplanes? will you make people take off high-heeled shoes before jumping down the slide?
this really DOES appeal to your sheepdog instincts. Go for it!
(we want JPGs of you in the full People Mover drag, you realise)