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Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide For People with Disabilities
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Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility For Your Safety A Guide For People with Disabilities and Other Activity Limitations
Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility For Your Safety: A Guide For People With Disabilities and Other Activity Limitations, 2002....
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Emergency Travel Safety Tips for Overnight Stays
Edition 1 – October 2017 By June Isaacson Kailes This document was made possible with support from: Grant to North Carolina Emergency Management from The North...
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Introduction
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Inclusive Safety Briefing
If you are not able to use stairs go to the area of evacuation assistance or area of refuge (See Note 1 below) located at (insert - for example: located on your right, go out the back doors...
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Check-in:
Be specific about your needs, for example, I would like a room on the ground floor, I use a motorized wheelchair and will need assistance in an emergency evacuation, or I use a motorized...
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Personal Support:
important so you have at least one back-up if your primary person forgets, or is not available. 1.2 * Don’t use the door night latch or dead bolt lock button on your door if you will need evacuation...
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Checklist for Inclusive Emergency Safety Briefings for Attendees
People directed to an evacuation assistance area or area of refuge / area of rescue assistance (See Note 2) need to know they will get evacuation assistance if they wait in these areas....
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Will you need assistance in an emergency evacuation?
Do you experience any of the following conditions that could interfere with your ability to quickly evacuate a building?...
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IS ASSISTANCE REQUIRED?
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I. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
Department of Justice’s ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Government (“ADA Tool Kit”) to address ADA obligations of emergency management, including planning, preparedness, evacuation...
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I. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
Department of Justice’s ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Government (“ADA Tool Kit”) to address ADA obligations of emergency management, including planning, preparedness, evacuation...
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Emergency Preparedness
Evacuation – People with a mobility disability may need assistance leaving a building without a working elevator....
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How do I assist a passenger with a disability?
How do I assist a passenger with a disability? Ask the passenger how you can best assist him or her....
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Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Take Responsibility for Your Safety
We did not hear about others whose activity limitations prevented them from successfully evacuating....
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Emergency Planning with Event Facilities Staff
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Mobility
operate some part or element of a standard building egress system, like stairs or the door locks or latches, then that person has a mobility impairment that affects his or her ability to evacuate...
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Blind or Low Vision
For assistance while in transit, walking, or riding, many people with visual impairments use a white cane or have a service animal....
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Deaf or Hard of Hearing
information emitted by a standard building egress system, like a fire alarm horn or voice instructions, then that person has a hearing impairment that could affect his or her ability to evacuate...
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Speech Disabilities
The only “standard” building egress systems that may require a person to have the ability to speak in order to evacuate a building are the emergency phone systems in areas of refuge, elevators...
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Cognitive Disabilities
All standard building egress systems require a person to be able to process and understand information in order to safely evacuate a building....
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Other Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities
Evacuation planning for people with multiple disabilities is essentially the same process as for those with individual disabilities, although it will require more steps to develop and complete...
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IS ASSISTANCE REQUIRED?
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Emergency Planning
assistance to people who would have difficulty or who would be unable to: Use stairwells, Hear alarms, See exits, Understand instructions?...