Category Archives: Emergency Preparedness
Help Flood Efforts in South Carolina
In response to the recent events that have devastated friends and loved ones in South Carolina, the university is collecting […]
VolShop gift card presented to Chemical Engineering student
Congrats to Tyler, the student who won the VolShop gift card for participating in the campus emergency preparedness survey.
Family Safety and Preparedness Fair
Family Safety and Preparedness Fair September 26, 2015 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. World’s Fair Park Knoxville, Tennessee Visit the […]
Personal Preparedness
With just a little bit of effort a community disaster can be more of a personal inconvenience to you. Here […]
Planning, Training, and Exercises Key to Preparedness
Effective campus response to an emergency depends on efforts done prior to the incident. Individual and collective responses have similarities […]
Minor Earthquake in Sweetwater TN
Earthquakes have been dominating the headlines in the past week and now, we’ve had one here in East Tennessee. The […]
Attacks in France yield lessons for campus community
Lassana Bathily was working as a grocery clerk in the French grocery store that was the target of an Active Shooter. According […]
Campus and Community Leaders Conduct Emergency Exercise
Campus and community leaders turned out in force to participate in a Table Top Exercise designed to ensure that many […]
Disease-Related Preparedness Efforts
The Student Health Center is the lead department on campus health issues and works closely with the Office of Emergency Management […]
Tip of the Week: Hazardous Materials Release
Like most downtown campuses, UT is near a major highway, railroad tracks, and some local industry that use and store […]