Definitions

TERM	DEFINITION
911	Refers to the different local emergency response services. The most common are the Winnipeg Police Service and the Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Services.
Active Threat	Refers, as per RCMP definition, to one or more persons who seek out a target rich environment and participate in random or systematic infliction of death or grievous bodily harm. Active threats may act with or without the use of a formal weapon and would or would not have a pre-determined pattern for their actions as well as in their selection of victims. An active threat using one or more firearms is commonly referred to as an Active Shooter.
AED	Stands for Automated External Defibrillator, a portable electronic device available to first responders that automatically diagnoses the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in a patient and is able to treat them through defibrillation.
Contractor	Refers to a third party engaged to carry out construction, maintenance work, an audit or any other work that is not handled by university staff.
Demonstration	Refers to a form of activism usually consisting of public meeting or march protesting against something or expressing views on a political, economic or social issue with the intention of influencing a democratic decision. Demonstrations can result in situation of sit-ins, deliberate blockades, and sometimes escalate to physical confrontations.
Emergency	Refers to a sudden, unexpected, or impending situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or the environment and may cause disruption of normal activities. Emergencies require urgent intervention and remedial actions or mitigation measures.
Encampment	Refers to a group of tents or other shelters set up on private or public property without permission. Encampments are commonly associated with political, economic, or social activism or due to unhoused people seeking shelter.
Evacuation	Refers to the process of removal of faculty, staff, students, contractors, and visitors from a location where a hazard or threat could pose imminent danger. Depending on the severity of the hazard or threat partial or total evacuations can be triggered.
Faculty	Refers to the teaching and administrative staff and those members of the administration having an academic rank within the university.
Hazard	Refers to a physical, thermal, chemical, biological, or radiological situation or condition that poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or the environment and may lead to an emergency or disaster. A hazard can be of natural cause or originated by an incident, including from industrial origin.
HAZMAT	Refers to a Hazardous Materials Response Team.
Lockdown	Refers to an emergency situation when security protocol requires faculty, staff, students, contractors, and visitors to be temporarily confined to disrupt a physical threat in the form of an individual or a group of individuals aiming to cause injury and assumed to have already gained access to some part of the university.
PA System	Stands for Public Address System.
PPE	Stands for Personal Protective Equipment and refers to protective clothing, respirator, safety glasses, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer from injury.
Security Services	Refers to Security Guards and Management.
Shelter-in-place	Refers to an emergency situation when the use of a structure and its indoor atmosphere is used to temporarily protect faculty, staff, students, contractors and visitors from an exterior hazard or threat.
SOC	Stands for Security Operations Center.
Staff	Refers to employees of the university who are not faculty.
Student	Refers to individuals who are attending classes at the university.
Suspicious Package or Mail	Refers to an item of any size which cannot be accounted for or appears to be “out of place” or “out of the ordinary”, as well as anything suspected of housing or harboring an improvised explosive device.
Threat	Refers to a person or thing, material or immaterial, likely to cause damage or other hostile actions against someone or an institution.
Visitor	Refers to a person visiting campus for business or leisure, while not an employee or contractor working at the university.