All employers have legal responsibilities to train their staff and have a duty of care to their staff safety. Evacuation chairs are becoming more popular in the workplace and under the provision and use of work equipment regulations 1998 employers have a duty to train staff in the safe use of them if they have them within their premises.

Our detailed training package covers every aspect from deploying the chair, the transfer of casualty including the use of transfer boards and belts, right through to the safe decent of staircases and through exits. Safe manual handling techniques are covered to protect chair handler from injury.

What is an evacuation Chair?

An emergency aid designed to decend stairs and provide fast egress for the mobility impaired when the lifts must not or cannot be used.

This includes

Mobility impaired

Visually impaired

Pregnant

Asthmatic

Elderly

Hearing impaired

Heart condition

Infants

Intoxicated

The package we offer is a half days training which consists of

Full power point presentation

Practical training

Use of transfer equipment

The principles of safe handling

Anatomy

Practical assessment

Training carried out by IOSH approved instructor

Each delegate receives certificate at the end of the course

Each course is suitable for 6 -8 delegates

Please contact for further details.