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Why you need a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan for disabled people

Photo of a fire in a building stairwellA Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan—also known as PEEP—is vital for keeping people safe in an emergency situation. And it’s even more important to have plans in place for disabled people, particularly those who require additional support in an evacuation situation. Around 1 in 5 Australians live with disability—and many of these disabilities can be invisible and dynamic, so it’s important to not assume someone’s access needs based on their appearance. What is a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP)? A Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP) is an escape plan for people with additional support needs in the event of an emergency.Read More
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Baby Mover Newborn Evacuation Apron

Babies in Hospital NurseryThe Baby Mover Newborn evacuation apron is made of solid, flame-retardant material. This fabric makes our evacuation apron extra suitable for emergencies, like cases of fire or flooding. The BABY MOVER® makes hands-free evacuation of babies possible, making it especially ideal for newborn evacuation from hazardous situations within hospitals or childcare centres. The newborn babies can be put in the pockets on the front and either side of the evacuation apron. The reinforced seams of the evacuation apron pockets do not need extra support and are made of tear-resistant material. The pockets’ strength, safety and security allow the person carryingRead More
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Baby Mover emergency rapid evacuation device for Childcare and Hospitals

Baby-Mover-Evacuating-3-Babies-and-2-ToddlersSafety is a critically important aspect of a childcare centre. The gathering of toddlers, babies and infants, in general, makes the place highly dependent in an emergency. Since infants depend on care, the need for extra help and a transparent evacuation plan is required. Safe and quick evacuation can’t be missed in hazardous situations within childcare centres, meaning a clear overview should be fully documented within a Group Emergency Evacuation Plan (GEEP) to indicate how the adults manage babies and toddlers during the rapid emergency evacuation. In this GEEP, both the actions and devices should be noted. Attention should beRead More
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How would you feel if you were left behind in an emergency?

hotel-fire-emergency-evacuationTo be an inclusive community, opportunities must be provided for everyone to be able to participate in all facets of life, including work opportunities, for people with disability. However, whilst the Building Code of Australia (BCA) mandates accessibility for people with disability, it is silent on how to evacuate people with disability in an emergency such as fire. What if you use a wheelchair and work in a multi-story building and there is a fire and lifts cannot be used? Not having a building code with prescriptive requirements to evacuate people with disability in 2022, I believe, is negligent byRead More
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Residential High Rise Evacuation

Gas explosion rocks Bondi Junction penthouseGas Explosion Takes Out Lifts. On 30 March 2009 a gas explosion occurred on level 29 in the plant room area of a residential high-rise building in Spring Street, Bondi Junction, where two plumbers were working on a gas-fired water heater. There was no ongoing fire, but the blast wave travelled down a riser and blew in most of the doors on levels 23 and above, including the fire stair and lift doors, making the lifts inoperable. Walls were blown out on the top two levels and there were cracks in the stairwell at level 26, which progressively worsened onRead More
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Interconnected Smoke Alarms Save Lives: Here’s Why You Need Them in Your Home

Only working smoke alarms save lives_portraitThere are now laws in place in Victoria, Queensland and other parts of Australia that require any new homes, or homes that are significantly renovated, to install interconnected smoke alarms wherever more than one alarm is required.  As the name implies, interconnected smoke alarms are connected to each other, which means that if one alarm is activated, all of the alarms in the home will automatically go off. This provides you with full home coverage, a simple but critical step that saves lives. According to Emergency Services Victoria, more than 60 Australians die in a house fire every year, andRead More
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Which Smoke Alarm Do I Install, It Is So Confusing

Red R10RF Photoelectric Smoke Alarm 10 Year Lithium Battery Wireless InterconnectSo, you are looking to buy smoke alarms for your home but website after website provide so many options its overwhelming to know which ones to select. We have provided the following guide to explain it for you. Standard Smoke Alarms – 9V Battery Only These are the most basic smoke alarms that are available. They are not wired into the home and require yearly 9V battery replacement. evaculife.com.au/product/red-r9-photoelectric-smoke-alarm-9v-battery/ Standard Smoke Alarms – 10 Year Battery These are a standard stand-alone smoke alarm. They are not wired into the home and do not require battery replacement for the life ofRead More
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This world-class evacuation chair for stairs makes emergency management compliance simple

EvacuLife Elite Evacuation Chair BlogComplying with national emergency evacuation management standards can be complicated: special planning is required for evacuating people with disability, infants and sick or elderly people. For the buildings, workplaces and facilities in which people with limited mobility live, work or receive treatment, purpose-built equipment – such as emergency evacuation chairs – is essential in order to meet the Australian Standard regulations for planning for emergencies. Keeping everyone safe in a multi-storey building while also ensuring compliance with these standards doesn’t need to be so complicated. Industry-leading equipment, which is designed to meet specific regulations around emergency evacuation planning for hospitalsRead More
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The innovative baby evacuation device upgrading hospital evacuation plans around the world

Evacu_B-Emergency-Baby-Evacuation-Close-UpHospitals around the world are updating – and upgrading – their emergency evacuation plans with an innovative baby evacuation device which enables the safe and speedy rescue of up to six babies at a time. This may sound like hype, but consider this: with game-changing safety features which directly solve the problems with traditional infant evacuation devices, it’s no surprise that emergency planning committees are scrambling to make the switch. If you manage a nursery, NICU or SBCU as part of a hospital evacuation plan, you’ll want to know about the Evacu B baby evacuation device. Here’s why. A failsafeRead More
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Training teams for timely NICU evacuation

Training teams for timely NICU evacuationIn late August 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake – the strongest east of the Mississippi since 1944 – shook Washington, D.C., with such force that it cracked the Washington Monument and damaged the National Cathedral. On the sixth floor of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children’s National in Washington, D.C., staff felt the hospital swaying from side to side. After the shaking stopped, they found the natural disaster exposed another fault: The unit’s 200-plus staff members were not all equally knowledgeable or confident regarding the unit’s plan for evacuating its 66 newborns or their own specific role duringRead More