COVER STORY | SWALLOW EMP UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS
If the worst happens and your building needs to be evacuated, it is vital that everyone has an easy and safe means of escape. Here, Swallow EMP offers guidance on how to ensure your building is accessible to all.
How much business is lost because of a lack of true access? How many students can’t attend the school or college of their choice because of access issues? How many people can’t attend work or public events because of a lack of access?
When it comes to selecting an evacuation chair, Swallow EMP offers you a choice so you can choose the most suitable product for your application. We advise against choosing a chair that requires a wheelchair user to transfer. What happens once they are outside the building? You must consider the individual and the operators as well as the type of stairs and landings you’d have to tackle during an evacuation.
Steps cease to be an obstacle as we have solutions which allow people to travel around a building even in the event of lift breakdowns. The correct choice offers you both access and egress solutions. Our powered units go both up and downstairs without manual handling, therefore enabling single person operation. We offer a range of products for people up to 230kg and goods up to 600kg.
Alongside our range of manual and powered access and evacuation chairs, we supply flex steps, training and servicing and the hire of evacuation chairs and stair climbers. We also provide free site surveys during which we analyse the needs of
both users and operators, ensure we understand the fabric of buildings and assess what can and can’t be done.
The University of Ghent
Hospital found evacuation chairs to be ahead of the stretcher, transit chair and sheet as a means of
evacuation. It did not compare brands of devices. See full report for all the facts.
EVAC TRAC CD7 • Downward evacuation • Single person operation • World’s only failsafe break • • 15 YEAR GUARANTEE
POWER TRAC • Up & down evacuation • One touch operation • Battery powered
LG2030 • Spiral, flared & straight stairs • Up & down • Up to 180kg • Wheelchairs, pushchairs
STAIR MATE • Takes user and wheelchair • No manual handling • Load capacity 160kg
GOODS MATE • Takes goods and people • No manual handling • Load capacity 130kg
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SUPER TRAC • Takes powered wheelchairs • No manual handling • Load capacity 230kg
C MAX - SELLA • Spiral staircase evacuation • Emergency services capability • Load capacity 300kg
SCOUT CRAWLER
• Adventure up to 17 degrees climbing
• All terrain up to 12km • Joystick operation
COVER STORY | TOMORROW’S HEALTH & SAFETY YEARBOOK 2015/16
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