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October 24, 2012

Evacuation for the mobility-impaired – Evac+Chair

Evac+Chair International is being recognised for its role in helping save lives during the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks in New York.

The World Trade Centre Museum will display Evac+Chair models from the company, whose specialist evacuation chairs for disabled workers and the mobility-impaired helped rescue several occupants during the attacks. While sharing the stairwells with first-responders, employees used the evacuation chairs to help disabled workers escape from the buildings.

The company says the chair’s unique construction made it easy for mobility-impaired individuals to be navigated down the staircases in their time of need. Described as lightweight, the chair’s design allows users to have total control of the chair’s descent speed, regardless of the passenger’s weight, or size. According to Evac+Chair, survivors and their rescuers reported that they were able to make their way down the stairs as fire-fighters came up, without any interference.

Mark Wallace, managing director of Evac+Chair International, said: “While it shouldn’t take a level of disaster such as the Twin Towers attacks to bring to mind the critical nature of emergency preparation, it does remind businesses how being mindful and ready for evacuations will help save lives.”

For more information, visit www.evac-chair.co.uk

What makes us susceptible to burnout?

In this episode  of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.

We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.

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