Tornado Drill Checklist
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- Before the Tornado Drill
- Make sure that your employees are aware that you are having a tornado drill.
- Make sure your employees understand what will take place during the drill.
- Ensure your employees know the safest places to be during a tornado.
- Encourage your employees to get information about tornado preparedness.
- During the Tornado Drill
- Announce the start of the drill by using a public address system or having designated volunteers alert staff.
- Employees should act as though a tornado warning has been issued for the immediate area or a tornado has been sighted near the building.
- Employees should evacuate as quickly as possible to the nearest safe place.
- Be sure to use stairs to reach the lowest level of a building.
- Avoid using an elevator.
- In a real tornado emergency, once people reach safe areas they would crouch as low as possible to the floor, facing down, and cover their heads with their hands.
- Once all employees have evacuated, the drill coordinator can announce that the tornado has passed and the drill is over.
- Employees can then return to their offices.
- After the Tornado Drill
- The drill coordinator should document any necessary changes in the evacuation procedure.
- Do more safe areas need to be identified?
- Are some safe areas cluttered and need to be cleaned out to be more accessible?
- Do employees know the fastest routes to take to safe areas?
- Is a better method for letting employees know of an approaching tornado needed?
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Who it's for
This Tornado Drill Checklist is for teams that want consistent execution, less rework, and clear ownership.
- Standardize quality - run the same Tornado Drill steps every time, regardless of who executes
- Save time - reuse a proven Tornado Drill workflow instead of rebuilding processes from scratch
- Improve accountability - assign owners and see what's done vs. what's pending
- Onboard faster - use the Tornado Drill checklist as the SOP and training guide
- Coordinate across roles - handoffs are clear and everyone works from the same source of truth
How to use it
How to use this Tornado Drill Checklist:
- Start by saving it - save as a Template if you'll reuse it, or as a Checklist if it's a one-off project.
- Customize it once for your workflow - remove what doesn't apply and add your team-specific steps.
- Assign ownership and execute - set owners/due dates where needed and track completion as work happens.
- Reuse without rebuilding - when Tornado Drill comes up again, start from your saved version and run it with clear ownership.
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