Welcome to the Emergency Response Website

Introduction

The University of Dayton Emergency Response Guide has been developed by the UD Emergency Response Preparedness committee to provide the campus community with a quick reference guide explaining how to respond to various types of emergencies that might occur on campus.

The University of Dayton provides its community with police and emergency medical services around the clock; however, we are not able to provide every service that might be needed to respond to or recover from a major critical incident.  Other agencies such as the Dayton Police and Fire Departments and other specialized service agencies would be required to respond to provide additional support functions for a major critical incident.

This guide was developed to provide you with a quick reference as to how you can respond to various emergencies in a way that will help reduce the chances of serious injury to you or other persons, minimize damage to property, and assist emergency response personnel in effectively dealing with the critical incident.

Every potential emergency situation cannot be anticipated or prevented.  This guide is intended to provide basic instruction and does not provide an absolute response for every emergency.  Keeping calm, exercising common sense, following basic instructions, and calling for the assistance of trained emergency response professionals will help us mitigate, respond to, and effectively recover from any major critical incident.