Building and floor wardens: role and responsibilities
Building wardens and their deputies control buildings during emergencies. Floor wardens work under their guidance to help with evacuations.
Building wardens:
- Establish the nature of an emergency when possible
- Order evacuations when needed
- Control evacuations
- Report on the state of the evacuation to emergency services
- Record evacuation details
Floor wardens:
- Check all areas they are assigned to
- Inform people when they need to evacuate
- Report on the state of evacuation to the building warden or emergency services
- Record evacuation details
