What the public and facility managers should know about safely evacuating their workplace.

Facility managers should teach and practice evacuation procedures with their employees so that they respond appropriately when evacuation becomes necessary.

Many of the businesses in the Cleveland Central Business District (CBD) are wellprepared because the evacuation of downtown Cleveland on 9/11/2001 spurred the development of building evacuation plans and a downtown Cleveland evacuation plan, and because of the subsequent training and drilling on these plans.

Newer businesses in the CBD and businesses outside of the CBD are probably not as well-prepared for evacuation.