There is little point purchasing evacuation equipment if you can’t use it. If you can’t answer yes to either of these questions
- Can you use it
- Will you use it
Then you need training.
Evacuation training seems to fall into two categories –
- What Training is
- What Training isn’t
Is
- Two Training Sessions in a day – normally morning and afternoon.
- Each Training Session last approx two and a half hours.
- Limited – to six people per session for evacuation chairs and eight per session for drag mats.
- Practical – we concentrate on the practical deployment, method and use of the equipment.
- Physical – The session will involve you learning to evacuate colleagues
- On site – Training where the evacuation will take place and sorting out issues on the spot.
- Certificates are issued to those who pass the course.
Is Not
- One session and we are in a hurry to be gone
- 45 minutes.
- As many as want to turn up, and when they have a moment.
- Theory – we do not sit around a table with a powerpoint presentation.
- Non physical, our instructor will require people to declare their physical fitness prior to beginning the course
- Off site
- Guaranteed pass. If you don’t make the standard you don’t pass
The movement of people down stairs in this equipment is a serious undertaking and it needs to be respected.
