About Us
The Office of Emergency Management collaborates and strives to be EVENT-READY by taking a proactive ALL-HAZARDS approach to Prevent, Mitigate, Prepare, Respond, and Recover from adverse events or disruptions that impact UCR's ability to maintain a safe, secure living, learning, and working environment.
Mission
Prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from disasters or emergencies that affect UCR's ability to maintain a safe, secure living, learning, and working environment.
Vision
Fostering collaborative actions and appropriate decisions creates a proactive, all-hazard culture of preparedness for a resilient campus.
Values
- Collaborative - Sustain sincere relationships among individuals and organizations to encourage trust and a team atmosphere that facilitates communication.
- Comprehensive - Consider all hazards, phases, stakeholders, and impacts relevant to disasters or human-made events;
- Coordinated - Synchronize the activities of all relevant stakeholders to achieve a common purpose;
- Flexible - Use creative and innovative approaches in solving disaster challenges;
- Integrated - Foster the unity of effort among all levels of the campus and local community partners;
- Risk-Driven - Introduce sound risk management principles (hazard vulnerability, risk and impact analysis) in assigning priorities and resources;
- Professional - Utilize a knowledge-based approach with training, ethical practice, public stewardship, and constructive improvement.
Emergency Notification System (ENS)
The Emergency Notification System (ENS) is used to notify the campus about an emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health and safety of the university community. The ENS comprises several approaches to quickly and reliably distribute communications or instructions in an emergency.
UCR's ENS effectively keeps all Highlanders safe and informed, ensuring a safe campus environment. UCR Faculty, Staff, and Students should update their mobile phone number(s) on file. Faculty and Staff can learn how to update in UC Path ticket, and students can update information in Banner; please see the FAQs on verifying your mobile phone number(s).
Subscribe to Emergency Notifications: Visitors text UCRSAFE to 226787. Parents text UCRPARENT to 67283 *SMS and data messaging rates may apply.
Emergency Notification
- When a verified dangerous situation exists on campus that could impact the immediate health or safety of our campus community (e.g., a dangerous person, fires, chemical release or other event requiring immediate action), or
- When the UCR administration has determined that immediate notification would assist in locating an offender or
- When urgent conditions affect the status of the campus (e.g., earthquake, weather, wildfire, etc.)
Once initiated, the Emergency Notification System includes several tools that could be used to disseminate critical information or instructions, which may include text/SMS messaging, verbal broadcasts from the campus belltower, messaging displayed on University computer screens, email, voicemail to campus phones, UCR websites, and Official UCR social media sites. When you receive or see an emergency message, it is essential that you follow instructions and tell others around you.
Installing Alertus
Alertus is a mass notification system used at UC Riverside to notify students, staff, faculty, and visitors of campus emergencies. Alertus Desktop is a small application installed on desktops, laptops, and monitors throughout campus. It displays an emergency notification directly to the computer's display. Information Technology Solutions recommends that everyone with a UCR-issued computer install the Alertus Desktop application. Having the Alertus Desktop application installed on your desktop is an effective way to receive critical information and instructions during an emergency, when seconds and minutes matter.
Monthly Alertus Test
The campus conducts an Alertus Bell Tower Speaker Test on the First Friday of the month at 12:00 PM (Noon). During this time, you will hear multiple tones periodically from the Bell Tower. A loud, steady siren will sound, varying in intensity and type, and verbal instructions will be heard. UC Riverside is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all campus stakeholders. An important aspect of this commitment is ongoing testing and refinement of the various communications technologies, systems, and processes used during emergencies.
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