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Escape Chutes can be
used from most high areas, where there is a possibility of being
trapped by fire, terrorism, criminal attack, or industrial accident,
that could result in the lose of life
or serious injury due to
no alternative means of emergency egress being available.
Escape Chute System
believe that the standard means of emergency egress (the internal
stairway) should always be the used to egress the building in a
emergency, however if that
means of egress is impassable what then? Initially developed in
the Sixties and Early Seventies by Gerard Zephinie (Vertical Escape
Chute) and The Uyeda Escape Chutes of Japan (Inclined Escape Chute), Escape Chutes today are becoming an
accepted alterative means of emergency evacuation from high rise
buildings and industrial plant.
Escape Chutes are now available in
various formats, that allow evacuees to descend vertically down as
in our "Verti-Scape" Escape
Chute, or you can slide down at an incline as in our "Slide-Scape"
both are a proven methods of emergency evacuation.
There are other formats of Escape
Chutes on the market, which include a inclined nylon netting type, a
inclined chute with spring reinforcement, and there are chutes that
are vertical, where the user travels down in a internal spiral, and
as a result of public knowledge knowing that the consequences of not having an
alternative method of emergency egress, there are more concepts and
designs of systems being placed on the open market.
All escape chutes are an
effective alternative method of evacuating a high location when all
other means of emergency egress are blocked, the alternative to this
alternative dose not bare thinking about. Just one Escape Chute can
evacuate at the rate of 25 people per minute.
Or have 360 persons at
ground level in 15 minutes, irrespective to the height. |