Evacuation Chair Training

This is a practical course designed to teach key employees how to use the Evac Chair safely so that they can evacuate people who need assistance or cannot evacuate themselves.

To give participants the skills to operate the Evacuation Chair confidently and competently.

• Personal Emergency Evacuation Planning (PEEPS)

• Manual Handling - principles of safe lifting in and out of the chair, as well as handling the chair.

• Chair Assembly

• Putting the chair user at ease

• Moving & Transfer of Evacuee from office, corridor, or landing to stairs

• Descending the stairs

• Practical use of the chair under various scenarios

• Moving to the assembly point

6

3.5 hours

On course completion, all delegates meeting the training standard are certified and deemed competent for their roles.

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.