Accessibility and evacuation for people with disabilities

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Course sheet

Fire safety & evacuation 1 Jour From 150 000 FCFA

In a nutshell

What this course aims to achieve

Accessibility and evacuation for people with disabilities

A one-day course on evacuating people whose disability makes unaided escape within the required time impossible: safe waiting areas, delayed evacuation, transfer equipment, and spotting the situations nobody has planned for.

Key challenges

Invisible disability is the least well allowed for: a hearing-impaired person does not perceive the audible alarm, and nothing in the arrangements provides for anyone to fetch them.
A safe waiting area only makes sense if someone knows a person is in it. Without a procedure for recording and passing that on to the emergency services, it becomes a trap.
Visitors, temporary workers and accompanied persons appear in no register. Yet it is for them that the arrangements must work with no preparation.
An evacuation chair bought and stored in a locked room has never helped anyone: its location and handling must be known to several people on each floor.

Learning objectives

Identify the different disability situations in relation to evacuation
Distinguish immediate evacuation, delayed evacuation and sheltering
Organise recording, escorting and passing information to the emergency services
Use the transfer and evacuation equipment available
Adapt one's establishment's evacuation instructions and drills

Detailed programme

1Disability situations and their consequences for evacuation: motor, visual, hearing, cognitive
2The accessibility chain and routes usable in an emergency
3Safe waiting areas: principle, signage, means of communication
4Delayed evacuation and horizontal transfer: conditions and limits
5Adapted alarm: visual and vibrating signals, designated helpers
6Equipment: evacuation chair, evacuation sheet, walking aids
7Recording, designated escorts, and handover to the outside emergency services
8Practical transfer and stair descent exercises

Target audience

Evacuation officers, floor marshals and sweepers
Safety managers, technical services and building managers
Reception staff and staff of schools, care premises and retail outlets
Disability coordinators and employee representatives

Prerequisites

None
Physical condition compatible with the transfer exercises

Learning methods

One day, including a half-day of practice on transfer equipment

Evacuation chair and evacuation sheet available

Work on the establishment's real drawings and instructions if delivered in-house

Learning assessment

Transfer and stair descent assessed in practice

A proposal for adapting one's establishment's instructions

Scope of application

Obligations on accessibility and on the evacuation of disabled people vary by country and by building classification: whether safe waiting areas are required, the conditions for delayed evacuation, the accessibility register. The course provides the method; the rules applicable to the building remain to be checked with the competent authority.

Upcoming sessions

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Dates are set by our team. Choose a session and the number of participants: your registration is recorded and confirmed once payment is received.

From 150 000 FCFA per participant

No session scheduled at the moment. Contact us to be told about the next session or to arrange a tailor-made course.

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