Fire Prevention & Life Safety

在线博彩是一个快速发展的机构, and the responsibilities of the Fire Prevention and Life Safety team grow and change with it. 我们通过以下方式确保建筑环境的安全:

• 火警疏散演习(消防演习): We coordinate with the 在线博彩 Police Department, Business Continuity and Facilities 每年对校园建筑及其居住者进行测试. We plan, implement, monitor and report on these exercises to help ensure that emergency evacuation procedures are current and effective.
• Egress Inspections: We inspect major campus buildings with an emphasis on assembly occupancies. 在这些强制性检查期间, we identify life safety deficiencies that would prevent occupants from rapidly exiting the building, 并及时纠正错误.
• Residential Inspections: Our inspectors team up with Campus Living Villages and Housing and Residential Life 工作人员每年秋季和春季学期检查住宅楼. We take this opportunity to identify hazards within campus housing and educate tenants about fire safety and 在线博彩 policies.

在线博彩建筑中有2100多个灭火器. The Fire Prevention and Life Safety Team ensures that each one is ready for use in an emergency.

The Fire Prevention and Life Safety team also inspects 550 fire sprinkler systems, 50 fire department connections, 25 fire suppression systems, 每月40台自动体外除颤器, 确保在紧急情况下做好准备.

• 月检及年检: We inspect each extinguisher every month to ensure they are in their proper location and are in good working order. We also conduct a detailed annual inspection to ensure our extinguishers are free of physical damage.
• Maintenance: 为更多的劳动密集型服务, we contract with vendors equipped to perform hydrostatic testing and equipment recertification. Our detailed inventory database assists us in scheduling required maintenance.

Our team provides the following training courses for 在线博彩 staff and faculty:

• SA 0411: Live Fire Trainer: 本课程提供实际操作灭火器的训练经验. We give attendees an opportunity to extinguish a live fire on a propane-powered fire simulator.
• SA 0473:家庭和办公室的消防安全: This course covers the basics of fire and life safety in your home or office. 讨论的主题包括:火灾的类型, extinguishing requirements, fire extinguisher use, 结构寿命安全特性, fire suppression systems, fire prevention, 以及建筑疏散策略.
• SA 0495:建筑防火规范:简介: 本课程提供法律的简要概述, 适用于在线博彩建筑的规范和标准, 包括手提式灭火器的防火标准, sprinklers, 消防泵和火灾报警系统, 以及每个项目的计划评审和系统验收要求.
• SA 0496:实验室防火规范:简介: 本课程提供法律的简要概述, codes, 以及适用于在线博彩实验室防火的标准. It also provides a review of tactical fire response to 在线博彩 laboratories and of how codes apply for those purposes.

这些课程可根据要求提供给各部门. We can also provide this content to students, whether at an event or in the context of coursework.

• Plan Review: 我们的工作人员审查新建筑的项目文件, 以及校园内预定的改造和翻新, 任何有关生命安全或消防问题.
• Construction Inspection: The Fire and Life Safety Team inspects on-going construction projects to ensure that 在线博彩 receives buildings in a condition that is safe to occupy. 与我们的在线博彩和建筑公司合作伙伴密切合作, we help ensure safe and code compliant conditions at project completion.
• Acceptance Testing: We monitor final acceptance testing of fire protection systems for these projects to ensure that the systems will perform to their specifications, listings and design standards, as well as code requirements.
• Hot Work Permits: Anyone performing cutting, welding or other related hot work at any 在线博彩 campus and/or satellite locations must obtain a 在线博彩 Hot Work Permit prior starting work. 许可过程包括现场评估, equipment inspection, 并确认有一个有效的, inspected fire extinguisher dedicated for fire control at the work area. To accommodate scheduling, we suggest requesting the permit with at least two business days advance notice. 快速事实:热门工作许可申请

The Fire Prevention and Life Safety Team provides safety services to special events at all 在线博彩 locations. We inspect cooking operations, review electrical usage and monitor event conditions to help ensure everyone enjoys a safe and successful event. We operate in unified command with San Antonio Fire Department for pyrotechnics events.

Have an Exit Strategy

无论是宿舍着火, club or concert venue, or in a public building, your chance of survival rests entirely on your ability to reach an unblocked exit. You generally have 60 seconds. Would you know what to do? We support the 德克萨斯州消防局长办公室's "Have an Exit Strategy" initiative. 每个人都应该学会走出房间的两条路, 那个房间是不是他们自己的厨房, a board room at work, 电影院或其他场所. Learn more about creating your exit strategy.

在线博彩 maintains a log of fires that have occurred in on-campus student housing in accordance with federal regulations (34 CFR §668.49).

The 在线博彩 Fire Log is not a complete list of all fire events that have occurred on 在线博彩 property.

下列定义适用于本消防日志:

• On-campus student housing: refers only to structures containing residential occupancy for students. The 在线博彩 Fire Log does not include neighborhood centers within student housing developments, 校园设施(行政), academic, library, student life or support) where students may overnight on a transient basis, vehicles, 地点远离在线博彩财产或任何类型的户外地点.
  • On-campus student housing consists of four developments. The 在线博彩住房和住宅生活部(HRL) 经营Chaparral村和Laurel村. Campus Living Villages (CLV) 经营奇泽姆公寓和大学奥克斯公寓.
• Fire: “any instance of open flame or other burning in a place not intended to contain the burning or in an uncontrolled manner.”
  • Fire 不包括控制燃烧, 即使这件事与政策背道而驰, such as candles, smoking or other open flames, 当明火没有造成财产损失时.

消防和安全综合报告

Effective 2015, 在线博彩 has combined the security and fire reports into a single document. 要访问当前报告，请访问  在线博彩PD报告和统计页面 并选择“年度安全报告”.”

Prior to 2015, 在线博彩's Risk and Emergency Management provided an annual Fire Report to the community. This fire report provided:

1. 与校内学生宿舍火灾有关的统计数字包括:
   1. 火灾的数量和每次火灾的原因
   2. The number of persons who received fire-related injuries that resulted in treatment at a medical facility, 包括在校内健康中心
   3. 与火灾有关的死亡人数
   4. 火灾造成的财产损失的价值
2. A description of each on-campus student housing facility fire safety system.
3. 上一历年举行消防演习的次数.
4. 该机构对便携式电器的政策或规定, 在学生宿舍吸烟和明火.
5. The institution's procedures for student housing evacuation in the case of a fire.
6. Fire safety education and training programs provided to students and employees.
7. Titles of each person or organization to which students and employees should report that a fire occurred.
8. Plans for future improvements in fire safety, if determined necessary by the institution.

AHJ Memoranda

有管辖权备忘录的当局

• 会议中心- ahj座位数备忘录 (posted 11/20/2014)
• 事件管理-集会人群控制- ahj备忘录 (posted 7/12/2012)