Research Paper on:
Chicago Workplaces and Emergency Evacuations

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managers and employers have been increasingly concerned about protecting the people under their charge during crisis situations. As a result, many employers and building owners/managers have worked to develop emergency  evacuation plans to help get their people out safely and in one piece should disaster strike. There is one unfortunate aspect to these plans, however - one is that the  plans are untried. And the second is the human factor and how people would respond to an order to evacuate. Those who work in offices tend to ignore fire drills,  thinking they are drills, very simply because theyre too wrapped up in their work. Ignoring such drills leads to chilling implications. For example, before the second plane flew into the  South Tower of the World Trade Centers on September 11, employees who had been originally evacuated were told it was okay to return to their desks (in the South Tower).  There were very few instances of employers telling their workers to take the day off - in one news magazine report, one bond salesman who had told his secretary to  go home for the day was laughed at by his colleagues - that is, until the second airplane hit. Employers and  building owners/managers in Chicago are no exception. However, there is uncertainty as to how such plans would work under crisis situations, as they havent been tried out as yet.  This particular study is an example of a research study conducted with employers throughout the Chicago area. The research focuses on three areas:  1) The detail and comprehension of the emergency plan; 2) If the plan has been tested in drills, or even in real situations; and 3) The effectiveness of the