If a fire breaks out on your premises, an evacuation chair could make the difference between life and death for a disabled worker on the second floor. You can’t use the lifts if there is such an emergency. But an evacuation chair, which rarely needs to be used, could be unserviceable if it hasn’t been regularly maintained. It will definitely be useless if no person capable of handling it is nearby.
Evacuation Chair Operating Training
That means that everyone should know how to do this and should have had recent practical experience of it. Making it a part of induction training and then forgetting about it is not good enough. Forgetting about it is just what your employees are likely to do. Without remembering the correct techniques to keep them and the people needing help safe, even more accidents can happen. To keep your chair handlers capable and confident it’s advisable to reinforce their initial learning about every three months. So how can that be made affordable?
Clearly the best way is to have your own in-house trainers who can roll out the training and practice to all departments over the year. Once they have attended an evacuation chair train the trainer course, they will be equipped with the competency to conduct all your in-house evacuation chair training.
Make the Training Cost Effective
At Alistair Bromhead Ltd, we offer open courses from time to time in different venues around the country. We also run in-house courses for organisations wishing to train up to six people. These courses are accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the UK’s chartered body for health and safety professionals and the world’s largest professional health and safety membership organisation. They therefore result in a nationally recognised certificate, which makes a motivating addition to a delegate’s CV.
Do you attend business breakfasts or other networking events? At such affairs, you could offer to make your qualified trainers available to other companies to recoup the cost of the training and bring in some more revenue. It really is worth having in-house evacuation chair trainers who have been trained the Alistair Bromhead way.