Public Safety

Severe Weather Locations

Uptown Campus West

Alms

  • 500 Level interior hallway by rooms 5114-5104

Alumni Center

  • Seek Shelter in basement or in rear hallway away from windows

Armory Field House

  • UC Foundation: Take shelter in the north hallway 217
  • Arena Level: Cross to Shoemaker, level 2 and seek shelter in any accessible room

Aronoff Building

  • 4000 Level hall between rooms 4470R-4470 and rooms 4440-4464

Arts and Sciences Building

  • Ground floor corridor away from doors and windows

Baseball Stadium

  • Press Box-Take shelter in interior hallways on field level
  • Concession Area-Take shelter in restrooms
  • Stands-Take shelter in Corry garage and Edwards Building

Baldwin Hall

  • Basement level 400 if accessible. 
  • Hallway (599) between classrooms 538-558

Bioscience Hall

  • Huddle rooms B02, B03, B06 (lounge area), B13, B15, B17 and the restrooms and shower room on the B level may also be utilized. Occupants in B30 can relocate to B30A and B30D.

Blegen Library

  • Interior stairwell

Braunstein

  • Level 100 interior hallway between classrooms 105-129

Calhoun Hall

  • Lowest level, interior hallway, lower stairwells, and any lower level restrooms without glass windows or doors

CCM Complex

  • Lowest level of CCM garage

CCM Scene Shop

  • Interior corridors to the East and South of the Scene shop

Central Utility Plant

  • Seek shelter in the basement in the north end of the building

Clifton Court Hall

  • Lower level corridors, hallways and restrooms away from outside windows and doors. The lower level of Stair E, on the south side of the building, may also be utilized.

College of Business

  • Seek shelter in the north and south basement and in room 10 (Information Technology Center)

College of Law

  • Interior corridors away from windows

Commons Edge North & South

  • There is no suitable point of refuge in this building seek shelter in 60 West Charlton

Crosley

  • Floor 1 interior hallways or interior stairwells

DAAP

  • 4000 Level hall between rooms 4240 and 4280

Dabney Hall

  • Residence-3rd and 4th floor interior hallways
  • Staff Offices-Seek shelter in room 454 or stairwell A & B

Daniels Hall

  • Basement Level (B99) interior hallways and Laundry room (B06)

DAAP Annex

  • Lower level corridors, hallways and restrooms away from outside windows and doors.

Dieterle Vocal Arts Center

  • 100 Level interior hallway between class room 109-125

Dyer Hall

  • Interior hallways on the first and second floor

Edwards One

  • Rooms T114, T113 and ground floor interior hallways
  • Edwards One Arlitt Center
  • Interior South hallway (away from windows and doors)

Edwards II, III, IV

  • Seek shelter in interior hallways and enclosed stairwells

Mantei

  • Basement or third floor interior hallway between classrooms 308-335 and 391-382

French West

  • First floor interior hallway between class 1605-1626

Geo Physics Building

  • First floor interior hallway and interior stairwell

Nippert Press Box

  • Interior stairwells or seek shelter in TUC locations

Langsam Library

  • Fourth floor interior space away from windows

Lindner Athletic Center

  • Floors one, two and three in interior hallways or accessible areas

Marian Spencer Hall

  • Lower levels interior hallway, lower stairwells and any lower level restrooms without glass windows and doors to the outside

Memorial Hall

  • 100 Level hallway and 200 level stair #3 to Stair #2

Morgens Hall

  • Basement, Lower three levels of enclosed stairwell

Nippert Stadium

  • Seek Shelter in Varsity Village garage, TUC, Lindner Athletic Center or Recreation Cnt.

Old Chemistry

  • 4th and 5th floor interior hallways, interior stairwells

Probasco

  • Lower level corridors, hallways and restrooms away from outside windows and doors.

Recreation Center

  • GYM: Take refuge in pre-determined safe locations that are posted throughout the building: The Men’s & Women’s Locker Rooms on the Ground Floor.
  • CENTER COURT DINING: In stairwell 1A, public rest rooms, and the men’s and women’s locker rooms on the ground level of the recreation center.
  • CLASS ROOM BUILDING: Seek shelter in all classrooms and in stairwells 2A & 2B
  • RESDIENCE HALLS: Take refuge in pre-determined safe locations that are posted throughout the building.  In stairwells 3A & 3B, and interior

Rieveschl Hall

  • Interior corridors of the lower floors away from windows

Rhodes Hall

  • Interior corridors away from the windows,  stay out of “High Bay” areas

60 West Charlton

  • Interior corridors away from the windows on the 2nd floor, interior rooms away from the large spans of glass in the old dining rooms, and interior stairwells. Use basement, if accessible.

Scioto Hall

  • Basement, lower three levels of enclosed stairwells

Shoemaker Center

  • Go to level 1 and cross over into Linder Athletic Center.  Take shelter in room #188 or any accessible room or hallway on level 1, 2 or 3. The arena floor is NOT a safe location.

Siddall Hall

  • Basement halls, sub-basement away from windows , lower stairwells

Siddall Dinning (Market Point)

  • Basement kitchen (staff, students if accessible); food service area, Southwest stairwell, Siddall Hall stairwells and basement(Students)

Steger Student Life Center

  • Business on Main: seek shelter in office or back room near fire pump room.  Seek shelter in the lower level of SWIFT HALL.  On the 400 level, seek shelter in the hall near rooms 444 & 449 or the rest rooms.
  • STARBUCKS: seek shelter on 300 Level near mechanical room 370 and the loading dock.

Swift Hall

  • 500 level interior hallway and in rooms 500, 510, 513,515,519 and 520

Schnieder Hall

  • West:  Ground floor hallway away from openings to the outside.  East:  In room 109A Laundry room and 108 Vending room and in the ground floor hallway away from openings to the outside

Tangeman Union Center

  • Take refuge in pre-determined safe locations that are posted throughout the building

Teachers

  • Ground floor interior hallways

Turner Hall

  • South:  In stairwell C, down to the basement and floor 1, hallway away from openings to the outside
  • East: Floor 1 hallway away from openings to the outside
  • North: Go to Schnieder Hall
  • West: Ground floor hallway away from openings to the outside or Turner Hall South: In stairwell C down to the basement and floor 1 hallway away from openings to the outside

University Pavilion

  • Seek shelter in the basement hallway and elevator lobby and the tunnel connector to TUC. Any basement room that is accessible

Van Wormer Hall

  • Lowest level interior hallways, in rooms away from windows to the outside

Wherry Hall

  • Interior hallways and ground level

Wolfson

  • Seek shelter in room 3320, 3320A and 3310

Vontz Center

  • Interior stairwells, basement level away from loading dock

Zimmer Auditorium

  • 300 L (Baldwin side, away from windows)

Uptown Campus East

CARE/MSB Building

  • Levels G to 7:  All freight elevator lobbies, all accessible interior rooms with no exposure to the outside or atrium
  • E-Level all public rest rooms and in the future dining/serving rooms
  • R-Level in the main central corridor from the freight elevator to stairwell 898B

Care/MSB Library

  • E-Level: In stairwell 298A, public rest rooms, and any accessible interior rooms with no exposure to the outside or atrium.
  • G-Level:  In stairwell 298A, public restrooms, and any accessible interior rooms with no exposure to the outside or atrium
  • R-Level public restrooms, and any accessible interior rooms with no exposure to the outside or atrium

Cardiovascular Research Center

  • Seek shelter in basement, Interior stairwell, E-level hallways

French East

  • G Level corridors away from exterior doors and windows

Health Sciences Building

  • Basement, hallway between rooms G37 & G49 corridors away from window and doors

Kettering Lab Complex

  • Seek shelter in basement or lower level of interior stairwells

Logan Hall

  • Seek shelter on basement level in the hallway between tunnel and North Stairwell

Medical Science Building

  • Lower level interior stairwell, interior corridors away from windows and doors to outside on floor R to 3  

Medical Science Building- Receiving

  • Seek shelter in interior stairwells, MSB lower hallways and UC hospital tunnel

Medical Science Building- Service

  • Seek shelter in interior stairwells and hallways away from windows

Procter Hall

  • Seek shelter in interior stairwells and level away from exterior windows and doors

Surgical Research Unit

  • Seek shelter in interior corridors away from windows on the lower levels

The Graduate

  • Seek shelter on Level P1-P4 of the garage and East & West Service Hall

Utility Plant East

  • Utility tunnel or engine room

University Hall

  • Level P4 of the parking garage

Vontz Center

  • Seek shelter in accessible area within the basement or ground floor restrooms

Victory Parkway Campus

North Lab

  • 100 level Interior hallway

Science Building

  • 100 level interior hallway away from exterior windows

Administration

  • 100 Level interior hallway and interior stairwells

Library

  • Seek shelter in the administration and science building

New Class Room Building

  • Seek shelter in the 100 level Science Building Hallway or the 100 level Administration building hallway and stairwell

Blue Ash Campus

Muntz Hall

  • Lower stairwells and halls (1st floor), hallway away from windows and doors to the outside

Flory Center

  • Bathroom, hallways away from windows

Walters Hall

  • Seek shelter in the first floor hallway away from windows and doors to the outside.  Interior hallways and lower (enclosed) stairwells (1st and 2nd floors)

Progress Hall

  • Seek shelter inside of restrooms 102 or 104, or in the interior hallways next to 102, 104, 107, or 108. Use interior hallway 120 if hallways 102, 104, 107, and 108 are full.

Pavilions A,B & C

  • There is no suitable place of refuge in these buildings.   Take shelter in Muntz Hall.

Maintenance Garage

  • Along exterior walls away from doors.  If possible, seek shelter in Muntz Hall building

Vet Tech Building

  • Any interior room or hallway with no exposure to the outside

Annex (old Sr.  Center)

  • Take Shelter in rest rooms, Rooms 102 and 120C and the basement if accessible

Center Hill

Building A: Combustion Research Lab

  • Seek shelter in Leather Research Building C

Building B: Large Scale Test Lab

  • Seek shelter in Leather Research building C

Building C: Leather Research Lab

  • Interior corridors away from the windows, mechanical room at the south end of the building

Building D:  Erosion Test Facility

  • Seek shelter in Leather Research building C

Clermont College

Peter-Jones

  • Seek shelter in the lowest level away from windows and exterior doors

Facilities Management Garage

  • Seek shelter in the back of garage away from doors or in Peter-Jones building

Snyder Addition

  • First floor and basement away from exterior windows

McDonough Hall

  • First floor center corridor and restrooms

Student Services

  • First floor hallway away from window and doors

Student Activities Center

  • There is no suitable area of refuge.  Seek shelter in Student Services Building

Reading Campus

Buildings A

  • Seek shelter in restroom on ground floor, interior stairwell and lower level halls away from windows

Building B

  • Seek Shelter in lowest floor in restrooms and hallways away from windows

Building C 

  • Seek Shelter in lowest floor in restrooms and hallways away from windows

Building D

  • Seek Shelter in lowest floor in hallway away from windows

Building E

  • Seek Shelter in lowest floor in hallways away from windows

Building F

  • Seek Shelter in lowest floor in hallways away from windows

Building G

  • There is no suitable place of refuge in this building.  Take shelter in Building A.

Building I

  • There is no suitable place of refuge in this building.  Take shelter in Building D.

Building J

  • There is no suitable place of refuge in this building.  Take shelter in Building D.

Off Campus Locations

2900 Reading Road: 1819 Innovation Hub

  • Seek shelter on the 1st floor away from windows

Campus Receiving

  • Seek shelter in room 107 away from windows and exterior doors

Observatory

  • Seek shelter in the basement away from windows

Fishwick

  • Lowest level, interior hallway, lower stairwells, and any lower level restrooms without glass windows or doors

Garages

Calhoun Garage

  • Maintenance Shop:  Seek shelter in hallway away exterior windows

Calhoun Garage, ROTC & Band

  • Seek shelter in lower levels and interior stairwells

Campus Green Garage

  • Seek shelter in Lindner Hall

CCM Garage

  • Seek shelter in lower levels of the garage

Corry Gage

  • Seek shelter in stairwells of garage or Edwards Center

Clifton Court Garage

  • Seek Shelter in Rieveschl Hall or lowest level of garage

Woodside Drive Garage

  • Seek shelter in stairwells or Langsam Library

University Avenue Garage

  • French West is the closest accessible building

Kingsgate Circle Garage/University Hall

  • Lowest level of the garage

Varsity Village Garage

  • Seek shelter in the back of garage away from garage entrances  

Eden Garage

  • Seek Shelter in lower levels of garage or MSB, UC Hospital Structure