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Evac+Chair International - Provides equal university experience to all
Leading emergency evacuation chair company
Evac+Chair International has provided the University of Wales,
Newport with a simple evacuation solution for the mobility
impaired.
On selecting Evac+Chair, Health and Safety officer Wayne Jones
explains, “We at the University have a responsibility to provide
an equal university experience to all, and make sure that those
with disabilities are not in any way restricted. After watching
an Evac+Chair demonstration at a health and safety exhibition,
we were confident that the chairs would be suitable for the
university. We were impressed with the design of the chairs
which makes them very easy to use.”
The university, situated across 2 campuses, is committed to
providing an excellent service to all students, staff and
visitors, regardless of disability. Health and Safety officials
recognised that in order to provide full access to all parts of
the buildings, an evacuation procedure would need to be put into
place for those who would have difficulty negotiating stairways
in an emergency. As part of this solution, a number of
Evac+Chairs were installed at various points across the
university. The evacuation chairs offer a controlled descent and
can be used on even steeper stairways up to an angle of 40º.
Evac+Chairs can carry a payload of up to 150kg but are at the
same time lightweight and with the correct training easy to
operate. Evac+Chair carries out regular ‘Key Trainer’
Masterclasses©, with the aim of training a member of an
organisation so that they in turn can train colleagues. The
company also offers an easy rental package on chairs as an
affordable alternative, which includes annual servicing of the
chairs.
The University of Wales, Newport is very pleased with the
evacuation chairs. Wayne Jones adds, “Evac+Chair gives us peace
of mind. We now know that everyone can be safely evacuated in
the event of an emergency”.
Email:
Valerie@evacchair.co.uk