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Fire Safety Requirements For Persons With Disabilities Ms Goh Sia Imm PDF
Fire Safety Requirements For Persons With Disabilities Ms Goh Sia Imm PDF
Building Owner
Evacuation lift
Place of Safety
PWD Holding Point
A temporarily safe space for PWDs to await
assistance for their evacuation
Free of obstruction
Located away from
Point of occupant
egress
PWD Holding Point
Min 2000mm
Min
500mm
provision
Rationale
In line with the minimum clear width or
1.2 m specified in the Code on
accessibility in the Built Environment
The width would facilitate wheelchair
bound person to manouevre and to gain
access to the nearest PWD Holding
Point
Escape Route
0
15
ax
1 4 0 0 m mm
m
Min 1400 in
Evacuation Lift
Evacuation Lift
Switching device
installed next to each
evacuation lift landing
door on the designated
floor.
housed in a breakable
glass-fronted cover box
marked evacuation
switch.
Evacuation Lift
Provided with standby power supply
For continuous operation during power failure
and/or fire emergencies (routing of cables for
evacuation lift similar to fire lift)
Lift shall
Be brought to the
designated floor
Park there with its doors
closed, after discharging
all the passengers
Other provision in lieu of lift
Ramps can serve as alternative means of
escape
Internal and external exit ramps
comply with current Fire Code
cl.2.3.3 (Exit staircase) & cl.2.3.8 (exit
ramp gradient)
Ramp designs conform to
requirements spelled out in Code on
Accessibility in the Built Environment
Management of Evacuation
Evacuation procedures have to be pre-planned by
the building owner/facilities manager
Management of Evacuation
The building owner
must plan, identify and make arrangements
for assistance during emergency
keep the following information :
Number of PWDS
Location of the PWDs
Nature of their disabilities
PWD Holding point in which they are allocated.
Management of Evacuation
Staff designated to
help PWD are to be
fully trained to execute
the evacuation
procedures
Visual indicator to be
provided where alarm
bells are located.
Visual Alarm System
Visual Alarm signal Visual Alarm Devices
Sufficient in number and
distribution to be visible from all
accessible locations
Visual indicator shall be mounted
at appropriate height such that it
is visible from all corners of the
floor
Visual alarm indicating device
shall be labelled with the word
Intensity of light signal should be
Fire and is legible from the
normal standing position
sufficient to draw the attention of
people in the vicinity Flashing or strobe lights of visual
alarm system shall be
Flash at a rate within the range
synchronized with the flash rate
of 30 to 130 flashes per minute
of such multiple fixture
Appreciation
The following Associations have been invited to
comment on the PWD Fire Safety Guidelines:
Handicaps Welfare Association (HWA)
The Society For The Physically Disabled (SPD)
Singapore Association Of The Visually
Handicapped (SAVH)
Singapore Association For The Deaf (SADeaf)
Disabled Peoples Association of Singapore
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