SCHOOL EVACUATION CHAIRS
SCHOOL EVACUATION CHAIRS – Essential for the Safety of our ChildreN
Why we need school evacuation chairs
School Evacuation Chairs – Imagine that you are in a wheel chair on the landing of a stairwell in a school emergency. Your school friends and teachers have evacuated the building, leaving you behind. This is a very real situation and school emergencies are common place, whether it’s fires, active shooters, terror attacks or unplanned releases of chemicals. It is the school systems moral, ethical and legal responsibility to safely evacuate everyone in the event of one of these emergencies, not just the able bodied.
School systems must act now and have the capacity to move all students, staff and visitors with temporary or permanent disabilities to a safe location immediately at the time of an emergency event. More often this involves evacuating a student, staff or visitors downwards, which can be a challenge for those who are unprepared. However, using an Evac Chair® school evacuation chair, it makes it feasible and straight forward to evacuate mobility impaired occupants down stairs to safety in any emergency.
SCHOOL EVACUATION CHAIRS
The Evac Chair® school evacuation chair is a light weight, easy to use by a single person, which glides effortlessly down stairways using its unique friction treads to assist with the quick and safe evacuation of students, school staff or visitors who are mobility impaired. The Evac Chair® school evacuation chair is of a unique construction and has a dual position seat for passenger comfort and ideal for a school child or an adult.
The Evac Chair® school evacuation chair is the World’s No.1 evacuation chair and was inducted into the World Trade Center Museum. The Evac Chair® is currently on display for saving the lives of several individuals that were confined to a wheelchair during 9/11.
Schools must protect every student, staff member and visitor at risk including those with physical limitations, at the time of an emergency and it is recommended that an Evac Chair® school evacuation chair be utilized and incorporated as part of a student’s 504 and IEP process. School staff must also be trained on the use of Evac Chair® school evacuation chairs.
School Evacuation Chairs, these are now essential for the Safety of our Children. For further information on school evacuation planning and school evacuation chairs please visit:
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