Not everyone may be able to follow your emergency evacuation procedures. In these instances, you need to create an individual plan.
If you have staff, pupils or residents who are either disabled or have a health concern that prevents them from following standard evacuation plans, you need to create a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan. This document sets out the special arrangements you’ve made to ensure that the individual in question can get to a place of safety in good time. The intention is that they should take the lead in designing the evacuation plan with whatever assistance they need from managers.
It starts with the basics, including the name of the individual and the parts of the building they use. Further sections include:
There’s space for each party to sign agreement to the PEEP including the representative of the responsible person and the assisted individual. This section also asks them to confirm various points such as that the escape routes have been seen by the individual and that practice sessions have been arranged.