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The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 aims to reduce discrimination and ensures that disabled people have civil rights in the areas of: employment, education, access to goods, facilities and services, and buying or renting property. The Act requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people including considering the safe escape of disabled people in emergency situations.

Disability Rights Commission estimates that 11 million people in the UK have some kind of disability. This may impact on their ability to leave a building speedily in the event of fire or make them totally dependent on others to escape. Installing an evacuation chair will help your company meet the duty of care under Health and Safety Discrimination legislation and also meet the requirements of the Regulatory Reform ( Fire Safety) order 2005.

Most lightweight evacuation chairs are a cost effective solution suitable for light / emergency use and can be neatly folded away in very little space. Tracked evacuation chairs may be used by a single user to aid the evacuation of those in need of assistance over stairs with an even, controlled descent with no heavy lifting or manual handling necessary. Evacuation chairs are used in all public buildings such as office blocks, hospitals, hotels, shopping centres, and department stores.

The Disability Rights Commission state ‘There is no document which states that disabled people should be left in a building to wait for emergency services during a fire Situation – all people should be evacuated if there is a fire’. Apart from the clear risk to life, employers and those in charge of a building who leave disabled persons in a fire refuge could also be guilty of discrimination.

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