This program is designed to promote safety education, awareness, and training in all buildings on Eastern’s campus. It focuses on the safety of building occupants through the timely dissemination of information and improved identification of safety hazards.
Each occupied building will have at least one Building Captain. Buildings may have more than one Building Captain based on the size of the building and number of occupants.
Employees must have their supervisor’s approval to become a building captain as it will require a small amount of time away from work to complete trainings.
Building Captain Overview
Building Captains provide education and disseminate information that is intended to increase safety awareness and facilitate evacuations. During emergencies and emergency tests, the Building Captains will aid first responders by identifying persons unaccounted for or unable to evacuate and assist as needed.
During emergencies, the Cheney Fire Department will always assume on-scene command as trained first responders.
Building Captain Responsibilities
The building captains will be the safety representative and point-of-contact within a building or designated area for safety matters.
In relation to Safety and Health, Building Captains will:
- Serve as first point of contact for safety information and incident reporting for all building occupants.
- Orient all new employees assigned to their designated areas in safety procedures and equipment, including:
- Fire evacuation procedures
- Exit locations
- Fire alarm and fire extinguisher locations
- Locations of first aid kits and automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
- Safety board locations and information
- Other pertinent safety related building/area information.
- Conduct periodic inspections and report any identified hazards to EH&S for corrective action, as needed.
- Maintain logs of inspections and provide these to EH&S.
In relation to Fire Protection, Building Captains will:
- Serve as first point of contact for building evacuations.
- Conduct periodic checks of fire extinguishers and AEDs within their area.
- Serve as point of contact for EH&S and to any emergency response personnel, as circumstances dictate.
- Know who needs special assistance to evacuate the building and provide increased training and awareness to building occupants in order to better aid those people in times of emergency.
Building Captain Volunteers
If you are interested in becoming a building captain please email Environmental Health & Safety at envhea@ewu.edu.
