disabled evacuation

Our consultants are specialists in providing advice to clients on the evacuation of disabled people from complex environment such as high rise flats and social housing environments.

Following the issuing of the following Guidance by the Department for Communities and Local Government, disabled evacuation has become a legal minefield for building managers:

"...Under current fire safety legislation, it is the responsibility of the person(s) having responsibility for the building to provide a fire safety risk assessment that includes an emergency evacuation plan for all people likely to be in the premises, including disabled people, and how that plan will be implemented.  

Such an evacuation plan should not rely upon the intervention of the Fire and Rescue Service to make it work......"

This is further backed up by the CLG Guidance on Fire Safety Risk Assessment - Sleeping Accommodation section 3.4.3:

"Once a fire has started, been detected and a warning given, everyone in your premises should be able to escape to a place of total safety unaided and without the help of the fire and rescue service"

We provide a whole range of services from total solutions to resolving single issues which protect both the building occupants from the effects of fire and building managers from potential litigation:

Disabled Evacuation Strategies

Strategic plans for the phased evacuation of disabled people inclusive of the definition of suitable refuges; colour navigation for escape routes; signage; two-way communication systems;

Disabled Emergency Plans

The development of emergency plans covering fire, internal and external bomb evacuation plans for building managers, staff and occupants to ensure the safety of disabled people in the event of fire;

Disabled Evacuation Plans

Detailed evacuation plans supported by 3D plans showing escape routes, refuges and assisted escape devices;

Assisted escape devices

Lifesliders enable people to be quickly evacuated in the event of fire; lifesliders are imported from the USA where they are utilized for evacuation of disabled people from high rise blocks.