Inclusion in Egress?
Here's an exclusive offer ... everyone's outside listening to the building's fire alarm, except you.
Being excluded is never a nice feeling, and unintentional alienation can come hardest of all. However, it's something to live with and live around and part of getting on and growing up, learning to deal with other people's points of view.
In certain circumstances however, ignorance isn't bliss. Here's at Wireless Alert Solutions Limited we work with organisations to provide like for like evacuation management solutions for disabled people. We work with companies who take safety and equality seriously.
Take Imperial College London, with the whole of their south Kensington campus covered with fire provision for Deaf people. Or Bedford College, where our DeafWatch system formed a small and positive part of their Charter Mark award from "Louder than words".
It's not even that there aren't legal provisions to support you. The Disability Discrimination Act, Health and Safety assessments and the British Standards for Fire Alarms provide good grounds and detailed requirements for the provision of an equal fire alarm solution for deaf people. It could be a flashing light system, a radio based broadcast solution or a buddy system, but it should comply with the legal requirements and be suitable to your work environment.
Many employers are simply unaware of a responsibility missed, as it simply doesn't occur to them, after all, they CAN hear the fire alarm.
We provide consultancy and systems to enable equal coverage and equal provision, and all at a reasonable cost. We would be delighted to speak to your employer about the fire alarm provision at your workplace, and the best routes to equality and safety.
Just because you've been excluded until now, doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.
