Emergency Communications

• All AgriLife employees are responsible for keeping informed of emergencies by monitoring news media reports, the AgriLife homepage and/or through direct notification via e-mail.
• To rapidly communicate with employees in an emergency:
  • Phone Tree: Center Director will contact Supervisors who will contact their staff.
  • Phone: Recorded messages may issued if necessary; similar to inclement weather instructions
  • Email: Specific messages are issued to AgriLife-Temple via brec-all@listserv.tamu.edu
• Signs may be posted on front door of building, if closure required, similar to holidays.

Emergency Access to Information and Systems

1. Operation of AgriLife-Temple computing services is dependent upon external power; our servers may have backup power of up to 30 minutes.
2. Computer/data backups in place through current AgriLife-Temples IT department policies
3. Some, but not all, Agri-Life employees have portable computing equipment and the ability to work remotely. Critical personnel without remote resources may be issued portable computing resources, as necessary during emergency situations on case by case basis.

IT remote work resources (For AgriLife IT Agency supported employees)

The AgriLife IT service desk will continue operations and provide remote assistance for the majority of computer and software support needs. A skeleton team available to perform hands on computer repair as required. The group has also put together the following reference guide with details on how to access email, files and perform voice, video and chat collaboration with fellow employees and others: https://firstcallhelp.tamu.edu/remote-office-resource-guide/.

For individuals that want to move computing systems to an alternate work location during this time, the department’s property manager would need to file all the proper paperwork that is required for taking a system offsite as well as update inventory records in FAMIS.