Life Safety Department

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Our Role at Lehigh

The Life Safety Department refers to the unit responsible for ensuring that the life safety systems alert occupants to the present of a fire or other emergencies within a building.

Life Safety reviews and approves drawings and technical documents for the construction of new buildings as well as the review and approval of similar documents for alteration/renovation, of any size, in existing buildings.  In addition, Life Safety oversees related system inspections ensuring code compliance and system integrity, performs building fire-safety inspections, and surveys university facilities to ensure systems conform to the Lehigh missions.

The Life Safety maintains the following equipment on campus:

  • Fire Extinguishers
  • Kitchen Suppression Systems
  • Sprinkler Systems
  • Fire Pumps
  • Fire Alarm Systems
  • Campus-wide Fire Alarm Monitoring System

To submit a work order for any fire safety related equipment, please SUBMIT WORK ORDER REQUEST HERE

Instructions on how to submit a work order are available here

Mike Oblick
Assistant Director, Life Safety
610-758-6173
Jim Sisko
Lead Life Safety Technician
Grant McLaughlin
Senior Life Safety Technician
Adam LaParr
Senior Life Safety Technician
Logan Randall
Life Safety Technician
LU Life Safety Department
114 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(610) 758-4215
inls@lehigh.edu