1.04 Building Coordinator
Vice President of Business Affairs
Office of Environmental, Health, Safety & Hazardous Waste
Purpose
- Each building on the McNeese State University campus shall have designated an individual (and alternate) to serve as a Building Coordinator.
- The Building Coordinator shall serve as the primary communication liaison between campus support agencies and the building’s occupants.
Responsibility
- Each building coordinator shall:
- Initiate service requests to be sent to Physical Plant personnel.
- Service requests may be sent to Physical Plant personnel by telephone, fax, voice-mail, e-mail or in person.
- Discuss and resolve complaints from building occupants.
- Be the liaison with Facilities and Physical Plant personnel concerning building operations.
- Act as coordinator for building occupants in implementing emergency response and evacuation plans developed and approved by appropriate University personnel.
- The building coordinator will be responsible for contacting University Police in the event of an emergency alarm in the building.
- Upon receiving the alarm notification and information from the building coordinator, University Police will either:
- Notify Lake Charles Fire Department to respond to an actual building fire and respond to the scene to assist in building evacuation; or,
- Respond to the scene to determine the nature and cause for the alarm.
- NOTE: Should the alarm be determined to be accidental in nature or a malfunction of the system, the system can be reset and University Police can give an all clear to the occupants to re-enter the building.
- HOWEVER: Should there be an actual response by the Lake Charles Fire Department, only the Fire Department personnel can give permission when it is safe to re-enter the building.
- Upon receiving the alarm notification and information from the building coordinator, University Police will either:
- The building coordinator will be responsible for contacting University Police in the event of an emergency alarm in the building.
- Work with the University’s Safety Officer to document quarterly building inspections to meet Office Of Risk Management requirements
- Report conditions that affect disabled individual to the Equity Office for assistance in resolving the issue.
- Initiate service requests to be sent to Physical Plant personnel.
Appointment
- The designated Building Coordinator (and alternate) shall serve for a minimum of one year.
- There is no limit to the number of consecutive terms a coordinator may serve.
Document Details
Issue Date: 02/27/04
Review Date: 03/15/2021
Revision NO: 1.0
Revision Date: 06/11/14
Revision Note: Revisions Noted in Italics