Emergency Organisation | FAQ

First of all, it is important you keep calm!
Leave the room you are in quickly but without haste. If you do not notice open fire or heavy smoke in the immediate vicinity of your room, you always have enough time to put on a jacket and lock the room after leaving it. Subsequently, leave the building via the nearest escape route. Please do not use the lift; take the stairs instead. Advice: Familiarise yourself with the premises of HSBI and pay attention to escape route signs and assembly points when entering and during your stay at the building. 

Pay attention to these signs:
 

During an evacuation, please approach people with disabilities and ask whether they need assistance and what kind of assistance they need. If necessary, ask other people to help with the assistance.

For students who use a wheelchair or who need assistance during evacuation due to impaired mobility, rescue sheets are available for free at the different university locations. In the university’s main building, they are available from the information desk, in Lampingstrasse and on Minden Campus, they are available from the facility managers/technicians and the security staff. In Gütersloh, please contact the office managers in the Gleis 13 building. Biotechnology and Instrumentation Engineering students will also receive the rescue sheets from the information desk in the university’s main building. Advice: Talk to your fellow students in advance whether they can or will provide assistance. As a helping person, offer assistance proactively.

For employees, a rescue seat and staff trained in using it are available.

We kindly ask you to assist people with other disabilities and to guide them out of the building.

If evacuation is not possible, take the person who has to be evacuated to an office or a staircase and approach a fire protection/evacuation assistant telling them where the person who has to be evacuated is at the moment. They will then pass on the information to the fire brigade for them to carry out the rescue.

• There are four assembly points at the main building of HSBI. They are located to the right and the left of the main entrance, at the conference centre and at the rear of the building (please pay attention to the escape and rescue route maps, the nearest assembly points are marked on them).
• In Lampingstrasse, the assembly point is in front of the building.
• On Minden Campus, the assembly points are in the car park in front of Building F, in the car park in front of Building B and in the car park in front of Building H (Ringstrasse 94).
• In Gütersloh, Schulstrasse, the assembly point is in the front parking area.
• In Gütersloh, Gleis 13, the assembly point is to the right of the building next to the Employment Agency.
• In Building G (Biotechnology and Instrumentation Engineering), the assembly point is in the car park in front of the building.
• In Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, the assembly point is on the lawn in the inner courtyard of the buildings.

Pay attention to this symbol:

• In the main building of HSBI, an announcement and an acoustic signal will notify you that you must leave the building.
• In Lampingstrasse, there will be an acoustic alarm. In addition, there will be an optical alarm in the wood workshop. 
• On Minden Campus, an acoustic signal will announce that you have to leave the new building. In the other buildings, a house alarm will alert you to leave the building. In addition, the evacuation and fire protection assistants use air horns to announce the evacuation. 
• In Building G (Biotechnology and Instrumentation Engineering) and at the locations in Gütersloh (Schulstrasse and Gleis 13), an acoustic signal will alert you to leave the building.
• In Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, there will be an acoustic signal indicating that you must leave the building. The fire brigade must be alerted additionally.

• To open an emergency exit door in HSBI’s main building, please press the red button (including the plastic cover) of the escape door control next to the respective door with force. A local alarm will sound and you will be able to open the door. Please note that the emergency exits may only be opened in an emergency. The information desk/security will automatically be informed about doors being opened without authorisation. 

Photo of an escape door control in HSBI’s main building:

Trained fire protection and evacuation assistants will be in action at all HSBI locations in case of an evacuation to help clear the respective building. Their tasks include searching a designated area to find out whether everyone has left all the rooms, halls etc. Locked rooms will not be checked again and are counted as cleared. Subsequently, the fire protection and evacuation assistants notify the person responsible for all notifications that the area checked by them has been cleared. These notifications are then forwarded to the fire brigade and emergency personnel. They are an important indication for further action. If there are any areas that have not been declared cleared, persons will be rescued from there first before other action is taken.

Buildings may only be re-entered at all HSBI locations after an all-clear has been given. This will be done by the fire brigade or by authorised HSBI personnel after consultation with the fire brigade.

1. Report the fire:

• By pressing the manual fire alarm* or by calling 112 by telephone.
• Who is reporting?
• What has happened?
• How many people are affected or injured?
• Where did it happen?
• Please wait for any questions the person on the phone may have before hanging up!

2. Bring yourself to safety:

• Take people at risk with you.
• Close doors.
• Follow the marked escape routes.
• Do not use the lift.
• Follow instructions.

3. Try to extinguish the fire:

• Use fire extinguishers, wall hydrants/fire hoses or other fire fighting equipment available to extinguish the fire. 
• Important: Do not put yourself in unnecessary danger! Your own safety always comes first!

* In HSBI’s main building, in Lampingstrasse, in Buildings A and D on Minden Campus, in Building G (Biotechnology and Instrumentation Engineering) and at the locations in Gütersloh, the manual fire alarm automatically alerts the fire brigade. At the other locations/buildings, the fire brigade must be alerted separately by calling 112. In some, there will be a house alarm which will alert you to leave the building.

Photo of a manual fire alarm:

Photo of a manual fire alarm:

• At all locations, please report any threatening events, such as bomb threats or similar occurrences, to the information desk.

1. Report the accident:

• Dial 112 and provide the following information:
• Where did it happen?
• What happened?
• How many are injured?
• Which injuries do they have?
• Please wait for any questions the person on the phone may have before hanging up!

2. First aid:

• Secure the accident site
• Care for the injured person
• Follow instructions

3. Further action:

• Lead the ambulance to the accident site
• Tell onlookers to leave the scene

There are rules for behaviour in case of accidents at all HSBI locations.
Posters indicate correct behaviour at all locations.

• In HSBI’s main building, first aiders must always be requested through the information desk. The information desk is permanently staffed. Please indicate which room you are in!
• At all other HSBI locations, first aiders are listed with their telephone extensions on the “Behaviour in case of accidents” posters.

An emergency doctor must be called in the following cases:

• Unconsciousness,
• Acute life-threatening condition,
• Severe accident with extensive injuries,
• Burns,
• Poisoning.

Tell someone to meet the ambulance at the building entry or driveway and lead the ambulance team to the person requiring help.

Although HSBI is not legally required to provide defibrillators, they can be found at all locations.

• In HSBI’s main building, there are defibrillators at the information desk, opposite room F 116, opposite room B 338 and next to room C 224.
• In Lampingstrasse, the defibrillator is opposite the caretakers’ office/next to the teaching staff’s pigeonholes on the ground floor.
• On Minden Campus, there is a defibrillator in the entrance area of Building D and another one on the ground floor of Building A between the lift and the postroom.
• In Building G (Biotechnology and Instrumentation Engineering), there is a defibrillator in G1 opposite the lift.
• In Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, there is a defibrillator on the ground floor opposite the lift.
• In Gütersloh, Schulstrasse, a defibrillator can be found on the third floor right at the entrance next to the kitchenette.
• In the Gleis 13 building, there is a defibrillator in the hall of the ground floor.