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Emergencies in high-rise buildings can arise from numerous factors including man-made, weather-related, building system failure, and terrorist acts. In these emergencies, the presence of sprinklers will not control the emergency. These emergencies might require a total or partial building evacuation. But when a tall building has over fifties occupied floors; the difficulty of evacuating hundreds or even thousands of people and their safety has become a key issues which led building owners to review their building exit strategy to ensure that everyone would have the equal opportunity to get out in the event of an emergency that requires total building evacuation.
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AB Mobiltex OY wish to inform our customers, potential customers, trade industries and the general publics, that there are several versions of “look-alike” appearance in resemblance of “The Ingström Escape Chute"® currently marketing in the Internet. The pictures and images of the escape chutes installations posted in these web-sites are of “Ingström Escape Chute”® manufactured and installed by AB Mobiltex OY and are not belong to the owners of those web-sites.
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The purpose of this article hopes to provide some basic information necessary for building safety professionals, owners and management of buildings to be aware of when source for escape chutes and its suitability of use for their building exit strategies.
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Here, Stig B Ingstrom, Managing Director of AB Mobiltex OY attempts to answer many of the most commonly asked questions that the First-Time Buyer of escape chute would likely want to know.
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These Building Evacuations FAQ's are by and large expressed opinions gathered and compiled by Escape Consult Mobiltex (S) Pte Ltd. for those who are interested in this topic.
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Improved building evacuation should include system designs that facilitate safe and rapid egress, methods, for ensuring clear and timely emergency communications to occupants, better occupant preparedness for evacuation during emergencies, and incorporation of appropriate egress technologies, which may allow all occupants an equal opportunity for evacuation and facilitate emergency response access.
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Evacuation preparedness activities are needed when mitigation measures have not prevented disasters or cannot prevent them. The preparedness phase develops plans to save lives and minimize casualties. Preparedness measures also attempts to tackle the perceived difficulties and problems of building evacuation and to assess the need to provide adequate facilities to enhance evacuation response operation.
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How would evacuees respond to the unconventional evacuation methods of fire escapes when the standard option of evacuating the building quickly may not be available if the normal means of egress, such as lifts, are not working and one or more stairways are impassable because of smoke, heat or flames? What would be the effect on evacuees? Would the occupants attempt to use the lack of familiarity with, or use of such systems if available to them?
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Given that stair travel is taxing and potentially dangerous for the disabled and that lifts are unsafe for used in extreme emergency, the development of "Accessible Means of Escape” design, would provide a way out of a building or structure for this segment of society.
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Firefighters may have strategy to tackle high-rise fire but no firefighter likes to contemplate the possibility of a high-rise fire emergency. For this reason, the provision of means of dealing with such incidents must assume at all times the possibility of, and need for, height rescue and extinguishing a fire at any time during rescue operations.
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All historic buildings that were constructed before there were any codes or before the current codes were adopted, that are preserved for heritage of the structure, must still provide a minimum level of life safety for the occupants which is now a legal requirement for all places of work.
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Are the current egress requirements in the codes adequate for addressing scenarios against the acts of terrorists, fire or otherwise that necessitate the simultaneous evacuation method of removal of all occupants rapidly from the building to a remote location?
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Patients in hospitals and nursing homes depend on the staffs of health-care facilities to evacuate them in the event of an evacuation. It is the staffs’ responsibility to prevent fire, know what to do if fire strikes, know how to implement rescue and evacuation in a fire emergency.
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When high hazard industry adopt a fire escape system, they have to evaluate the occupancy load at that work place and the shortest time needed to get everyone out of that premises to safety in case of an emergency.
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The incapability of providing egress for people who either have difficulty or downright impossible to use exit stairs in the event of a major evacuation when lifts were considered unsafe increase the risk factors of injuries and fatalities to this group of evacuees.
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Preparedness in evacuation is not a luxury but risks reduction strategy in the post 9/11 world. Even a well-maintained intelligent or smart building with proper fire protection, security and surveillance systems cannot prevent threat of fire or other emergencies from happening. Creating emergency plans and procedures response to fire and other threats are needed to make sure all losses will be minimal in the event of worst case scenarios.
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