University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                         Instructional Support Group

/share/b/pub/lab-safety.help

                                                                 November 2011


		     What if you are threatened in a lab?


Hello students, instructors and staff:

The shooting in a computer lab (http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/15/)
at Haas School of Business on Nov 15, 2011 was a serious concern for us all.  

Ways to call for help during an emergency in one of our labs:

  * from a campus phone:  call 911 (UCPD)
  * from a cell phone:    call 911 (CA Highway Patrol) 
  * from a cell phone:    call 510-642-3333 (UCPD) 
  * from a cell phone:    text 510-664-8477 (UCPD)
  * email cal@tipnow.com (http://police.berkeley.edu/caltip/) (UCPD)

Access to every EECS instructional lab is restricted by cardkey on evenings, 
weekends and holidays.  Many labs are restricted 24x7.  Students in EECS 
classes are automatically enabled for cardkey access to the labs for their 
classes.  (This is a good time to remember the rule not to let unauthorized 
people into the buildings or labs.)  

The UC Police Department has posted an informative video to help us be 
prepared in the event of a shooter or other threat in our confined lab 
spaces: "Shots Fired"
(https://bspace.berkeley.edu/portal/page/4bd38df7-ea22-47ac-881c-9fabd3565388)
(Login to bSpace.  The video is in Flash.)

To be automatically notified of emergencies, you can subscribe to:

  * http://warnme.berkeley.edu/ (UC Berkeley)
  * http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=25416 (City of Berkeley)
  * https://alertsf.org/, http://twitter.com/alertsf (City of San Francicso)

Please report any observations or concerns you have about safety in our 
labs.  You can report to EECS staff in any of these ways:

  * visit 251 Cory or 387 Soda (main dept offices)
  * visit 377/378/380/384/386 Cory or 333 Soda (instructional support)
  * email inst@eecs.berkeley.edu
  * call 510-643-6141

Thank you,

Kevin Mullally
Manager, EECS Instructional Support Group
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kevinm