COVER STORY
It’s type tested through TUV NORD of Germany and conforms to the most stringent quality management system for build quality: ISO 13485:2016.
Awareness and practice in how to use the equipment safely and efficiently is key to making Evac+Chairs a familiar part of emergency procedures. The training and maintenance provided by Evac+Chair is vital to ensuring the lifetime performance of the chairs.
KEEPING PACE WITH CHANGE Next month, the government is expected to provide more detail on its plans to strengthen the regulatory framework for building safety. This follows on from Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety’ developed in response to the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017.
This scrutiny of safety - not just in residential high-rises but in all multi-storey buildings - is very timely and has the potential to protect occupants of existing, new and refurbished buildings throughout the UK, whatever their use.
Indeed, best practice is already progressing, independently of new guidelines. Responsible and forward-thinking organisations are looking to adapt their policies and procedures to the changing needs of building users and the increasing threats to building safety.
The building landscape is also changing. Land prices encourage architects to build higher structures to attain the most value and, in many cases, to create a prestigious landmark the planners can be proud of.
Many cities around the UK are experiencing unprecedented high-rise development and this provides the ideal opportunity to rethink how these buildings need to be adapted to manage risk and the safety of occupants in the future.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE When the founders of Evac+Chair established manufacturing in the 1980s, it was producing hundreds of chairs a year, mainly for the public sector. Now, over 30 years later, Evac+Chairs are being produced in their thousands and can be found in schools and colleges, tower blocks, football stadia, shopping centres, hotels, museums and libraries providing safe evacuation equipment for everyone all around the world.
Their ambition is to ensure that the safe evacuation of the mobility-impaired from public and commercial buildings is high on the agenda of all future planning of health and safety provision, not just in the UK, but worldwide.
www.evacchair.co.uk Tel: 0121 706 6744
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