| Fire Evacuation Plans |
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The most common objectives for a review of evacuation procedures are to either establish if the property can safely accomodate an increased occupancy or to reduce the impact of false alarms on business continuity. Locke Carey can develop a strategy and set procedures for your premises in order to reduce evacuation times and make procedures resilient to emergency circumstances as far as reasonably practicable. An expert third-party review is invaluable in testing hidden assumptions and together with analysis and computer simulations can provide insights into how different emergency conditions affect the evacuation. We provide expert consultancy, including movement simulations and associated software tools to test and refine the new evacuation strategies so that the plan is more robust and effective. We also seek to make evacuations themselves as safe as possible - evacuations involve large numbers of people moving quickly which carries its own hazards. Many disasters around the world show that crowds can be dangerous and that small hazards present significant risks when they occur in crowds. |