Attention Human Resources & Employers

EVAC+CHAIR has been around for more than 30 years and the Company expanded its operations into Canada in early 2014, to meet growing demand here. The company’s core client base is public sector facilities and healthcare but now with changing accessibility legislation across the country they have focused on private corporations and businesses. Jim Closs, managing partner, EVAC+CHAIR Canada, says the device has started to attract the attention of human resource directors as it answers the question of providing a safe workplace to all those in need as well along with those who may have entered their workplace with a disability.

The emergence of the untapped populous of persons with physical disabilities entering or re-entering the work force means that employers need to ensure their staff’s complete safety in the workplace including the ability to evacuate quickly.

EVAC+CHAIR is designed to help evacuate people with limited or impaired mobility when the stairs are the only way out of a building. The 20-pound tool, which has a capacity of 400 pounds, can be stored flat on the wall. When needed, users can dismount and unfold it in around 10 seconds.

The Industrial Designers Society of America has recognized the EVAC+CHAIR with a Design of the Decade Award. The tool has also been credited with saving lives in the evacuation of New York’s World Trade Center towers on 9/11.

EVAC+CHAIR bears a lifetime warranty and comes with a mounting wall bracket, vinyl dust cover, instructional DVD, full- colour user guide and patient restraints.

For more information, visit www.evac-chair.ca or email [email protected]