Our mission is to provide information that will save lives during extraordinary emergency events and hasten the resumption of normal University operations during the recovery process. An effective organizational emergency response depends on an informed campus community whose members are familiar with campus procedures and understand their personal responsibility for emergency preparedness and response.

Emergency Resources

Emergency Guide: Contains essential phone numbers and what to do in case of a fire, earthquake, biological spills, needle stick/ exposure to blood or body fluids, radiation spill, chemical spill, acts of violence, personal injury, evacuation considerations for people with disabilities, utility failure, and bomb threat.  http://blink.ucsd.edu/Blink/External/Topics/Policy/0,1162,3882,00.html

CERT (Campus Emergency Response Team): Join UCSD’s Emergency Response Team (CERT), and be prepared to help yourself and others in a crisis. Membership is open to students, faculty and staff. CERT members also participate in non-emergency projects that improve the safety of the campus community, including role-playing in campus emergency preparedness exercises and becoming familiar with campus emergency resources.  http://blink.ucsd.edu/Blink/External/Topics/Policy/0,1162,22122,00.html

Triton Alert (Emergency Notification): Triton Alert is an emergency notification system that sends a text and/or voicemail to your phone. It reduces the confusion that many experience during an emergency by providing reliable information to an accessible source. All members of the UCSD community are eligible, including faculty, parents, staff, students and visitors.  http://blink.ucsd.edu/Blink/External/Topics/How_To/0,1260,22756,00.html

UCSD’s emergency status phone number: 888-308-8273 (308-UCSD) Call this number for a recorded message reporting the status of UCSD. A remote phone center in Arizona is kept up-to-date for members of the campus who are away from the region.

UCSD Websites: Emergency messages will be posted on the home page (www.ucsd.edu) and the UCSD Emergency Status Website (http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/emergency.) The UCSD emergency status page will be updated with information on major emergencies affecting campus.