Fire and evacuation procedures

Get to know the surroundings! During the first weeks at BIO, use a bit of your time to find out where the emergency exits, fire extinguishers and other safety equipement are located. If your laboratory is distant from your office/reading room, check the surroundings of both places.

The local site managers will show you where to find extinguishers, blankets and hoses, and locate the closest exit as well as an alternative exit in case access to the closest exit is made impossible (smoke, fire, structural damage).

Here are the signs and corresponding equipment that you will find at BIO:

• Keep calm, evaluate the situation and act fast.
• If the fire is manageable, use fire hose, blankets or extinguishers
• Trigger the fire alarm (red boxes)
• Close all doors and windows to contain fire and smoke
• Call 110 (Fire Department) and report:
  1. Who is calling
  2. What has happened
  3. Where the fire is
• Evacuate the building and meet at the assembly point.

If you are at “Biologen” (Thormøhlensgate 53A/B), a message will be broadcasted in the corridors. This message may differ depending on the origin of the alarm. LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE, it tells you what to do. You may thus be advised to “leave the building” or to “wait for further instructions”. If you are in the BIO-building at HiB (Thormøhlensgate 55), a bell will ring. Proceed to evacuating the building immediately.

Click on the following buttons to hear the voice messages and the alarm:

Whether your workplace is at “Biologen” (Thormøhlensgate 53A/B) or BIO-building/HiB (Thormøhlensgate 55), follow the evacuation procedure described below.

• Keep calm and leave your workplace immediately; don’t waste time trying to take personal belongings with you unless there are close to you.
• Evacuate the building by using the nearest emergency exit. Follow the green signs; they show you the direction to follow.
• Use stairs, NEVER use lifts
• Never turn back unless the recommended exit path is blocked or you have been instructed to use a different path.
• Never go back into the building unless the fire safety officer has given a clear signal that the situation is resolved.
• Meet at the fire assembly point (propeller, next to VilVite).