Safety tip: Tornado season is approaching

A message from NEOMED’s Emergency Management Planning Team

Spring is hopefully approaching, but so is tornado season.

How do you monitor potentially severe weather while you are on campus?

Since Rootstown Township does not have a tornado siren, we strongly encourage everyone to have emergency alerts enabled on your cell phone so that you can receive important weather/emergency information.

Be sure to catch our messages next month, which will include additional communication methods and information about a campus-wide tornado drill.

What is the Emergency Management Planning Team?

The Emergency Management Planning Team (EMPT) is a group of NEOMED officials responsible for administering the University’s Emergency Management Program.

What does that mean?

The EMPT:

• Consists of personnel who would most likely be called upon to make up all or part of the University Incident Management Team (UIMT) during an emergency.
• Plans and prepares for the response to emergencies.
• Works to prevent and mitigate emergency situations.