Archive for the ‘Evacuation’ Category

Fire Exit Signs: Your Way to Safety

February 26, 2013
Illuminated Fire Exit Signs

Choose illuminated fire exit signs for better visibility.

Fire exit signs are just as important as fire drills, exit routes, and emergency products. Fire exit signs can show your employees and visitors their way out during an electrical outage or major disasters such as a fire or earthquake.

Installing fire exit signs is not as simple as making a purchase and posting them wherever you want to. Your exit signs must comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Here are the basics you need to know about fire exit signs:
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Let There Be Light: 3 Types of Illuminated Fire Exit Signs

October 11, 2012
Fire Exit Sign

Eliminate your electric costs with glow-in-the-dark signs.

Your building is incomplete without a fire exit and hence, a fire exit sign. To comply with fire safety standards you should post fire exit signs both on the exit itself and the route leading to the exit. Moreover, fire exit signs should always be visible.

Sounds difficult? Fret not! You can simplify your task by using illuminated fire exit signs. Here are the three types of illuminated fire exit signs. Take your pick!
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National Fire Prevention Week: Ensure Fire Safety

October 9, 2012
NFPA logo

October 7 to 13 is National Fire Prevention Week!

Save the dates October 7th to 13th for National Fire Prevention Week 2012! This year’s theme, Have 2 Ways Out!, stresses the importance of having two escape routes. What if your exit is blocked by smoke or fire? Your second route could save you then.

Below, you can find more tips from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) on how to safely evacuate your building. (more…)

Are You Ready? How to Prepare for Emergencies

September 4, 2012
Emergency Preparedness Products

Emergency preparedness products complete your company’s exit, fire and evacuation plan.

Accidents can happen in your workplace anytime. You can experience something as minor as a paper cut or as major as an explosion. If accidents occur in your facility, are you prepared?

September is National Preparedness Month, which is observed annually since its inception in 2004. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 3,000 organizations across the country will hold various activities to promote emergency preparedness.

Your company can support this campaign in your own way. Follow these steps from Ready to create your own office emergency plan. (more…)

How to Plan Your Fire Safety Program

August 27, 2012
Exit Fire Emergency Safety Compliance

Exit, fire and emergency safety signs can save your employees’ lives.

Fire can damage not only your facility but your business as well. Worse, your employees can get injured or killed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ August 2011 news release, fatal occupational injuries caused by fire and explosions increased by 65 percent in 2010.

You can prepare your workplace for such a horrible disaster by establishing a fire safety program, which is also required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Here, you can learn the basics of preventing an office fire. (more…)


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