Evacuation Chair Training for Offices & Corporate Settings
Office buildings, business parks, and multi-tenant premises come with their own set of evacuation challenges. From high-rise headquarters to shared co-working spaces, employers have a clear legal duty to ensure every person on their premises can evacuate safely — including visitors, contractors, and employees with disabilities.
EverSafe provides practical, no-nonsense evacuation training for corporate environments. We help you meet your compliance obligations and make sure your fire wardens, managers, and facilities teams are fully prepared.
Why Corporate Settings Need Specialist Training
Specialised evacuation skills
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires employers to carry out fire risk assessments and ensure adequate evacuation procedures for all occupants
- High-rise and multi-storey office buildings require trained evacuation chair operators and refuge area management
- Multi-tenancy buildings need coordinated evacuation plans across different occupiers and management teams
- Visiting clients, contractors, and members of the public must be accounted for in evacuation procedures
- Staff with disabilities or mobility issues must have individual PEEPs in place
Relevant Equipment We Supply
We supply evacuation chairs and associated equipment for offices and business parks, and can advise on how many devices you need based on your building’s occupancy, number of floors, and staircase layout.
Training We Offer
Evacuation Equipment Operation
We train your nominated staff to operate evacuation equipment confidently and safely:
| Evacuation Chair | The most widely used stairway evacuation chair in UK office buildings WordsCharactersReading time |
| Evacuation Mat | Compact and fast — ideal for narrow staircases in older office buildings WordsCharactersReading time |
| Transfer Equipment | For assisting employees with mobility needs in an emergency WordsCharactersReading time |
Procedures & Handling
Fire Safety & Emergency Procedures
- Fire warden and chief warden training
- Evacuation planning for single and multi-tenancy buildings
- Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) for employees with disabilities
- Refuge area management and communication with emergency services
- High-rise and complex building evacuation strategies
- Visitor and contractor evacuation procedures
Manual Handling for Emergency Situations
- Safe techniques for assisting colleagues with mobility difficulties
- Emergency procedures when specialist equipment is unavailable
- Confident decision-making under pressure for fire wardens
Example
Seven Storey Office Building
A facilities manager at a seven-storey office building in Manchester contacted EverSafe after an internal audit flagged that their evacuation chairs had never been properly maintained and their fire wardens had received no hands-on training. We delivered a full Evacuation Chair operator training day for twelve fire wardens, created PEEPs for three employees with mobility needs, and serviced all existing equipment on site. The facilities team described the training as the most practical and relevant they’d received, and booked annual refresher sessions for the following two years.
Protect Your People. Meet Your Obligations.
Talk to our team about a corporate evacuation training package. We’ll work around your business hours and can train multiple fire wardens in a single visit.