Tenant Handbook
Floor Warden Responsibilities
Each Floor Response Team designee should become familiar with the following duties.
Floor Warden
- Appoints personnel to the emergency team and fills all vacant positions
- Keeps Office of the Building updated on any changes in Floor Response Team personnel
- Pre-plans the handling of physically impaired personnel during evacuation
- Takes position at assigned exits and assists in the evacuation of all personnel
- Feels stairwell door with back of hand for heat. If no heat is detected, opens door slowly to inspect stairwell for possible heat and smoke conditions before evacuation
- Instructs personnel to form single file lines in stairwell and directs personnel to exit along the right side of the stairwell
- Supervises and monitors evacuation flow while remaining calm and encouraging others to remain calm and orderly during evacuation
- Remains at exit until Searchers have cleared all personnel for the floor
- Ensures that no one uses the elevators during an emergency.
- Must be familiar with the building's emergency procedures and the location of stairwell
- Finds and evacuates all personnel from the floor, specifically from remote areas such as storage rooms, file rooms, coffee/break areas, restrooms, etc.
- Check all rooms including restrooms , conference rooms, reception areas, offices and remote areas.
- Close, but do not lock, all doors after you have determined that the room has been evacuated.
- Advises any remaining personnel on the floor of the emergency and insists on their evacuation.
- Evacuates non-employees found on the floor .
- Must be familiar with the building's emergency procedures and the location stairwells
- Responsible for the safe evacuation of any physically impaired personnel.
- Maintains an up-to-date list of impaired employees.
- Moves all wheelchair bound personnel to the stairwell area and waits with them until emergency personnel arrive.