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 Evacuation
and Evacuation drills
Common objectives for evacuation procedures are to reduce
evacuation times and make procedures resilient to emergency
circumstances as far as reasonably practicable.
An expert third-party review is invaluable in testing
hidden assumptions, and together with analysis and computer simulations
can provide insights into how different emergency conditions affect the
evacuation, for example:
We provide expert consultancy, including movement Simulations, and
associated software tools to test and refine the new evacuation
strategies so that the plan is more robust and effective.
Making
evacuations safer
We also seek to make evacuations themselves as safe as possible.
Evacuations involve large numbers of people moving quickly which carries
its own hazards.
Many disasters around the world show that crowds can be dangerous and
that small hazards present significant risks when they occur in crowds.
Evacuation
Drills
Evacuation drills are disruptive to business and cost money. Frequently
the approach to evacuation drills is to carry out a ‘box-ticking’
exercise once a year that is the same as all the drills that have gone
before. These drills are designed to minimise disruption and they tend
to be successful – in that everyone leaves the building safely and moves
towards the nominated assembly area. Little thought is given to the
success measures beforehand or how evacuation might work in the more
testing circumstances of a real emergency.
Analysis and computer simulations can be used to test how evacuations
should work under different conditions. This can be used to help design
evacuation drills to get the most benefit so that the low cost of
analysis can give a high Return-On-Investment in the drill. Finally the
outcomes of this work can reduce the time taken to undertake drills
saving time and money.
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Evacuation Consultancy
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