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re: Are evacuation chairs the best option?

chaase — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:20:31 GMT

Staff must not be expected to use evacuation chairs and I would suggest they should not ascend stairs to assist anyway. You also have high staff turnover in this area so maintaining staff proficiency would be impossible.

I would like to offer a fifth option. It is to provide evacuation chairs within each room, reception maintain a record of guests that will need evacuation that can be given to first responders (this does not mean on a computer but written in a book). This list can then be handed to first responders so they can undertake the rescue directly. Guests would be required to either wait in their rooms or within refuges where they are provided.

The key benefit of this system is the reduced resources require by the emergency services to rescue each person with a disability, i.e. a 1:1 or even 2:1 ratio is only required as opposed to sat 4 with a backup of another 4 for change over every 3-4 floors. Here is a good post about resource allocation.

Bruce Bromley

www.equalaccess.com.au

re: The best football pies ever?

JonGDavis — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:10:19 GMT

Should concentrate on the public catering side of things......

re: The best football pies ever?

Kernowtetra — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:44:07 GMT

What about pies in the other divisions as well? Football life should not be all about the Premier League! ;-)

Green Army

re: An accident waiting to happen

banana skin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:03:02 GMT

Well spotted. Just glad it was not one of our clients.

re: At last a hotel understands

Chrisg0ufp — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:37:17 GMT

So simple but brilliant, I will be suggesting our college adopts the idea in our car park.

Chris Beesley-Reynolds FRSPH

re: Love never dies! But would that apply to a Paralympian in 2012

Gordon Cartwright — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:13:07 GMT

This experience is just so Victorian! All that's missing is the London smog, gas lit street lamps, the sound of hoof on cobble and the distant twang of Holmes's fiddle!

Seriously though. It's shocking. This century must about equality once and for all...

re: Social networking really does work, I can prove it now!

Gordon Cartwright — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:26:49 GMT

People were sceptical about, smoke signals, semaphore, morse code, then the telegraph, then the telephone, then the fax and then email, then mobile space. Social Networks are just the next step. I think businesses need to get into social networks simply because of what is coming next... If Google have their way we'll have free instant verbal and written translation services across all networks and communication channels around the world. Imagine communicating with someone in China and having a fluent network discussion with someone writing (or speaking) in Mandarin. If you’re not developing your networks now you'll miss out on the seismic jump in global hotel marketing that is about to take place...

re: Social networking really does work, I can prove it now!

theother left — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:28:27 GMT

We too were unconvinced but within a couple of weeks we already had a booking for five people in our restaurant from Twitter. I think it is a great tool and am personally learning so much from it.

re: I'm supporting Hospitality Action Week

Mark — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:29:15 GMT

Ker-ching! Nice one, Arnold.

re: Good or bad?

Northern Sky — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:09:21 GMT

Is the alarm cord the red cord at the top right of the shower? Unbelievable! You'd need to be a basketball player to reach it.

re: A severe case of back ache

Access all areas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:47:59 GMT

Hi Mark,

I would argue it is the architect who did not think and specify the right product. And the builder will probably say I was doing what I was told.

Next to this shower is an accident waiting to happen as the rails have not been fitted properly with bolts through the wall. I have just returned to the same hotel and the repair has been done with the same screws that came out two weeks ago. So for the sake of four bolts the hotel could end up with a bill of thousands. It is just madness.

re: It is bolt that if you ignore will cost you thousands.

Mark — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:10:45 GMT

It's the same old story isn't it, Arnold - lip service paid to doing the right thing, but failure in the delivery ...

re: A severe case of back ache

Mark — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:09:09 GMT

Arnold, it looks to me as if the components are of a standardised size, so isn't this the fault of the manufacturer and not the fitter? That said, the fitter should have tried the seat and realised the wall behinf the seat needed to be walled out ...

re: My plea for a hotel toaster that makes toast

Access all areas — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:40:53 GMT

I was a Marmite baby and as they say you either love it or hate it, I love it

re: My plea for a hotel toaster that makes toast

Mark — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:22:23 GMT

To coin a phrase, Arnold, you want jam on it!