Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities

The National Fire Protection Association offers an Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities, which was developed with input from the disability community. It provides information on 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. evacuationguide

The Guide includes a checklist that building services managers and people with disabilities can use to design a personalized evacuation plan. The annexes give government resources and text based on the relevant code requirements and ADA criteria.

http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/Forms/EvacuationGuide.pdf

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