Current equality and fire safety legislation complement each other by ensuring that buildings are not only accessible to disabled and vulnerable people, but also that they can escape safely in case of fire or other emergencies.

Part of the fire safety risk assessment for any building/premise must include an emergency plan with an evacuation strategy.  This plan must take into account the evacuation of all people who are likely to be in or using the building/ premise and give details on how it will be implemented.  This must include disabled people. 

These plans are called

Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans

or PEEPs for short.

There is a moral and legal duty on an employer or service provider to make adequate provision for the safe evacuation of disabled people.  Failure to consider personal emergency evacuation plans may be interpreted as discriminatory as well as a breach of current fire safety legislation. This is the same for all countries within the UK.

Current Positioning

Don’t get caught out by this special duty that you have as a responsible person, consult the experts in this field, Personal Emergency Evacuation Planning Ltd.

What We Can Do For You

Personal Emergency Evacuation Planning Ltd. can provide employers, service providers and any other organisations with a full consultancy service to advise on PEEPs.  We will provide standard and individual PEEPs together with an integrated package of emergency planning and evacuation strategies. We also provide a full range of fire safety advice including fire risk assessments, fire and evacuation training (including the use of many evacuation aids), fire engineering solutions and legislative (fire) advice.