If a fire or smoke is seen, notify staff to call a Code Red. Follow the RACE procedure: Rescue anyone in danger, sound the Alarm by pulling the fire alarm pull box, help Contain the fire and close all doors, and either Extinguish the fire if possible or Evacuate. The Command Post location during an emergency is the Business Office or alternate Lounge. If evacuation is necessary, patients will be discharged home if possible or transferred to the treating hospital. All staff, patients and visitors will exit through the front, double doors, or rear doors. The emergency is over when the alarm stops and an all clear is announced. A Code Triage indicates a disaster situation - await instructions. External and internal

1. SAFETY
AND
SECURITY

2. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS:
LIFE SAFETY
IF YOU SEE FIRE OR SMOKE IN THE
FACILITY
TELL STAFF MEMBER TO CALL CODE RED
Remember “RACE”
R=Rescue
A=Alarm
C=Contain
E=Extinguish or E=Evacuate

3. FIRE
EXTINGUISHERS

4. FIRE ALARM
• “Code Red please report to the Business Office”
• Close all doors
• Clear the corridors
• Await further instruction
• Evacuate only if told to do so by the Director of
Clinical Operations or designee

5. COMMAND POST
• The Command Post is located
in the Business Office
• The alternate Command Post
is the Lounge
• The Director of Clinical
Operations or designee will
report to the Command Post

6. EVACUATION
If evacuation of patients is necessary:
• Discharged to home if possible
• Transferred to the treating Urologist’s
hospital, University Hospital or SBMC
• All staff, physicians, patients, visitors, etc.
will exit through:
• Front door
• Double doors
• Rear door of the facility

7. FIRE/FIRE DRILL IS
OVER
• The fire alarm stops sounding
• The strobe lights stop flashing
• “Code Red all clear. All Staff,
patients and visitors may move
freely throughout the facility.”

8. DISASTER
• “Code Triage please report to the Business
Office.”
• Await further instructions
• Disaster is over when you hear
“Code Triage all clear. All staff,
patients and visitors may move freely
throughout the Facility.”

9. EMERGENCY
• External and Internal Panic buttons
– The External Button notifies UMDNJ
Public Safety of an emergency at the
Center. These are located:
• Under counter in Business Office
• Recovery Room next to Soiled Utility
entrance
• ESWL Suites
– The Internal Panic Button notifies the
Staff of an emergency within the Center.
It is located:
• Under the Business Office counter

10. FYI
• UMDNJ Public Safety responds to fires, emergencies at
The Stone Center
• The Newark Fire Department responds to any fires at
The Stone Center
• When the external panic button is pushed, a UMDNJ
Police Office will respond to The Stone Center
• At the entrance doors there is a camera to monitor who
comes in to The Center. All are “buzzed” into The
Stone Center
• The Stone Center has its own Security System
• There are fire alarm pull boxes by the front door, double
doors and rear door in The Stone Center