Pro Skid evacuation chairs from Equal Access

Equal Access Disability Access Consultants division Evacuation Chairs Australia are the leading supplier Nationally of Emergency Evacuation Chairs.

Evacuation Chairs Australia are now the sole distributors of the Spencer range of Evacuation Chairs. An Evacuation Chair should be mandated pieces of equipment within any multi level building. People with disability are not the only beneficiaries of planning evacuations with Evacuation Chairs. Pregnant woman, people with medical conditions such as cardio/heart, obesity, asthma, elderly, arthritis and short term injury and the like will all benefit.

Employers have a "Duty of Care" to provide adequate means of escape for everyone using their premises. If people with a disability can get into a building then, given appropriate planning, they will be able to get out again in an emergency.

The most important component to emergency evacuation is - to get "everyone" out safely.

The reasonably practicable definition looks at a) the likelihood of the hazard or risk concerned eventuating; the degree of harm that would result if the hazard or risk eventuated; what the person concerned knows, or ought reasonably to know; the availability and suitability of ways to eliminate or reduce the hazard or risk; the cost of eliminating or reducing the hazard or risk.

Employers have a "Duty of Care" to provide adequate means of escape for everyone using their premises.

Creative strength lies in simplicity: in the realization of intuition and in the innovation of objects. The necessity to have an evacuation chair ready for immediate use has pushed us to penalize the compatibility in favour of the ease and speed of use.

The Pro Skid is meant for use in public buildings because when necessary it is ready to be used without any compromise, and not only in the case of evacuation.

Designed to maximize the manoeuvrability in cramped spaces and on stairs. Easy transport of personnel to and from stairs and towards the outside of the building.

On the Pro Skid, the back rest and the foot rest extend to become support handles with an ergonomic technique of lifting, thus improving the vision of the stairs and feet for the operator when obstacles on the stairs necessitate the lifting of the chair.

• The chair has a caterpillar belt system that allows movement down the stairs with the help of one operator only.
• The frame's tubes must have a minimum diameter of 25 mm up to a maximum of 35 mm in order to improve stability, strength and durability.
• The chair's backrest must be made out of at least two horizontal supports.
• The main wheels must have a diameter of 200 mm in order to improve stability, comfort and movement.
• The front wheels have a brake system which blocks both horizontal and vertical rotation to stop movement even on steep slopes.
• The chair has a headrest with head-fixing belt system in order to improve safety.
• Both headrest and seat are detachable, padded and made out of vinyl material coating 600D, antibacterial and completely filled in order to improve comfort, hygiene and durability.
• The chair has posterior integrated carrying handles that attach at the support frame and to the hub between the chassis and the support frame, anterior telescopic handles to make possible also the use of the chair to ascend a stair (2 person operation) say from a Basement.
• Integrated instruction provided on the head rest.

Further details available at www.evacuationchairs.com.au.