Accessibility issues
Allan Fraser, NFPA's Senior Building Code Specialist, on accessibility and life-safety issues for the disabled:
Safety challenges for people with disabilities NFPA's history of life-safety and accessibility for the disabled. The definitions and categories of disability Why the Evacuation Planning Guide is important The delay in writing accessibility codes, and what is being done to expidite the process More about the Evacuation Planning Guide
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Safety Information For consumers Populations People with disabilities
People with disabilities
NFPA is your source for fire safety educational materials for people with disabilities.
More than 43 million Americans have a disability. The identity of the group of Americans with disabilities is constantly changing — at any moment we ourselves could become part of this group, for maybe a short time or maybe for a long time. NFPA has long been involved with developing strategies and fire safety educational materials for people with disabilities. Please download and use any of the free educational materials we have developed for people with disabilities, friends and families, and workplaces, schools and communities. You can also subscribe to our free quarterly newsletter to keep you up-to-date on news and issues on this important topic.
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Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide
NFPA's Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities provides information on the five general categories of disabilities (mobility, visual, hearing, speech, and cognitive) and the four elements of evacuation information that occupants need: notification, way finding, use of the way, and assistance. It also includes a checklist that building services managers and people with disabilities can use to design a personalized evacuation plan, as well as government resources and text based on the relevant code requirements and ADA criteria.
- Planning guide in PDF format (1 MB) or Word (1.9 MB)
- Planning Checklist Word (192 KB)
Gary Olsen, a member of NFPA's Fire Safety for People with Disabilities Task Force, uses American Sign Language in this presentation about the importance of making a home fire drill plan.
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