Personal Emergency Evacuation Planning Ltd.

What is Personal Emergency Evacuation Planning?

The current fire safety legislation requires that the person who is the ‘responsible person’ for the building/premises should provide, as part of the fire safety risk assessment, an emergency plan that takes into account evacuation of all people who are likely to be in or use the building or premises including disabled people. The plan should also state how it should be implemented. These plans are called personal emergency evacuation plans, or PEEPs for short. The important point to note here is that there can be no reliance placed in the plan on the Fire and Rescue Service’s intervention to make the plan work.

If an employer or service provider does not make any provision for the safe evacuation of disabled people from their premises, this may be interpreted as discriminatory as well as failing to comply with the current fire safety legislation. This is the same for all countries within the UK.

Current Positioning

The Government have taken the production of PEEPs very seriously, that’s why they have produced an additional guidance document in the fire risk assessment series dealing solely with means of escape for disabled people, and Fire and Rescue Authorities will be the main enforcers. 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 Employers and Service Providers

Personal Emergency Evacuation Planning Ltd. can provide employers, service providers and any other organisations with a full consultancy service to advise on PEEPs as well as provide standard and individual PEEPs together with an integrated package of emergency and evacuation planning. We can also provide through our own individual companies, Flamerisk Safety Solutions Ltd. and Fire Needs Limited, a full range of fire safety risk assessments, fire training, fire engineering solutions and legislative (fire) advice.