In addition to the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 as amended, are you aware of Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, these Regulations, often abbreviated to PUWER, place duties on people and companies who own, operate or have control over work equipment. https://www.hse.gov.uk/work-equipment-machinery/puwer.htm
PUWER also places responsibilities on businesses and organisations whose employees use work equipment, whether owned by them or not. PUWER requires that equipment provided for use at work is:
suitable for the intended use
- If your evacuation equipment is suitable ?
- Is it a transportation or ambulance chair rather than an evacuation chair ?
- do you need to go up and down stairs to evacuate, can your evacuation chair be carried ?
safe for use, maintained in a safe condition and inspected to ensure it is correctly installed and does not subsequently deteriorate
- is your evacuation equipment serviced by a competent person at least annually ?
- do you carryout internal checks ?
used only by people who have received adequate information, instruction and training
- do you have trained operators for your evacuation equipment ?
- do you have a sufficient number of trained operators available whenever your building is in use ?
- do your trained operators practice with the equipment ?
used in accordance with specific requirements
- are your users and operators of your evacuation equipment aware to your building fire strategy, emergency procedures and PEEPs/GEEPs process ?
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