Evacuation

About one week ago, a friend told me that the building in which his office was located had conducted evacuation training for all tenants and their employees. The purpose of this training was to inform employees on what they must do when any fire break out. When the alarm rings, all employees must go down using stairs. The elevators are turned off.

However, not all employees did so. Some were reluctant to go down to “save themselves” and chose to stay in their office. Why? Probably, they didn’t want to go down through emergency stairs, which was farther and more tiring. Besides, what should they do that? It is only a  training, not the real situation. In other word, no fire is breaking out.

The question is, had the management building anticipated this kind of attitude? They have the responsibility to ensure the safety of people in the building. On the other hand, people should realize that evacuation training is very important for their own safety.  This kind of understanding has to be taught as early as possible.