People with Individual Needs

• It could be YOU
• Personal Emergency Egress Plans (PEEPs)
• Refuges
• Evacuation Lifts
• Other Possibilities

There has been for some years a growing trend, supported by powerful and far-reaching legislation, to ensure people with disabilities have full access to places of work, shops, educational and other public buildings. This clearly implies a requirement to include the same people in any planning for escape from fire. Their needs should be reflected in the findings of any Fire Risk Assessment, in the fire precautions installed and the fire and evacuation procedures adopted.

It is important that Fire Wardens (or others with specific responsibilities relating to fire) know about people in their area who may need help in the event of an evacuation, and that this information is passed to the relevant management or security staff who can make special arrangements if necessary. 

People who will be unable to leave unassisted may, by prior arrangement, have a member of staff assigned to them as a helper.