Evac+Chair is a universal evacuation solution for smooth stairway descent when the lift is out of service due to breakdown, under maintenance, power outage and in fire situation. Single user operation ensures no heavy lifting or manual handling is required during...
Authorities in many countries have make it mandatory for owners of designated premises to draw up plans to cater not only for fire emergencies, but also address other fire related emergencies or hazards affecting life safety. This is regardless of whether the hazard...
The future tall buildings belongs to building owners who see the need to adopt new solutions to provide equal access as well as equal egress for building occupants and their visitors. Such solutions would give the people with physical disabilities the same ability...
In January 2009, the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) in the United States approved the use of “Supplemental Evacuation Technology” in high rise buildings to assist in rapid escape in an emergency. NFPA also approved the use of Supplemental Evacuation Technology...
Many buildings are now constructed as “accessible” or “barrier free” to allow Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) ready access. Equally important is the need to have fire safety features and evacuation planning strategies to facilitate the evacuation of PWDs during an...
Most new building designs incorporate special features to make them more accessible to the disabled and elderly. Currently, designated staircases are the minimum fire escape requirement in buildings. However, this this minimum may no longer be adequate as the global...
Now that the use of Supplemental Evacuation Technology for high-rise buildings has been approved by the NFPA, it provides redundancy and survivability into the...
In an ageing society, with more of the disabled joining the work force and the working population continuing to grow older, will existing access and evacuation...
Fitting escape chutes paid off for Bulga Coal when an employee used one to escape safely from a burning excavator.
The original Evacuation Chair, manufactured by Evac+Chair, has been inducted (placed) in the World Trade Center Museum, on display for saving the lives of several...
Most, if not all high-rise buildings offer routes for escape in an emergency. These measures also help to prevent fire from spreading to nearby buildings, prevent...
A National Health Service facitilty is seen as a secure place to seek treatment and support, often when individual are feeling vulnerable and in need. Although the...
A frightening scenario: fire in a multi-story building. Escape via the (emergency) staircase is possible, at least as long asheat and smoke are kept out. Suffocation by smoke in particular causes many fatalities. Trying to get away via theroof and wait there for a...
No Fire and Emergency Services Department likes to contemplate the possibility of a high-rise fire. While most building management have procedure for evacuation which is not dependent on the fire brigade however, if the system fails then the fire brigade will have to...
As the UK gears up for the Paralympic Games this week, it emerged that around a third of all employers are breaking the law by failing to prepare adequately for workplace evacuations among disabled workers.
Barrier- free- access to buildings for people with disabilities has attracted considerable attention in recent years. A great deal of work has been done to improve the accessibility of public buildings for people with disabilities. However, the improvement in the...
This article explores the difficulties in evacuating occupants from high rise fires. This subject has received careful attention, with many international conferences to determine optimum systems and codes that help developers and stake holders to comply with their...
The recent joint reply from the Singapore Civil Defence Force and the Housing Board (HDB fire: Illegal ads prevented firemen from locating fire lift switch; July 6) failed to address a key concern that was raised in several earlier letters. Essentially, that is: How...
