Escape Chutes – Save Lives!
About the Mining Vertical Escape Chute
How to use the Vertical Escape Chute ...
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Sit on the edge at the entry point with your feet and lower legs in the chute – at this stage, you will feel the inside wall of the chute grip your lower legs
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Expand your legs against the inside wall of the chute – you will feel considerable resistance
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Whilst supporting your body weight with your hands, lower yourself into the chute, keeping your legs fully extended against the inside wall of the chute
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Once your shoulders are in the chute, push your hands and arms against the inside wall of the chute and bend your legs at the hips – this action will slow your descent – by applying enough pressure you can come to a complete stop and just sit there
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To descend further down the chute, relax the pressure against the inside wall of the chute
The evacuee has full control of the speed at which they descend!
Increase Pressure
= SLOW DOWN
OR STOP
Relax Pressure
= SPEED UP
The Verti-Scape Escape Chute is manufactured from three completely separate and distinctly different fabric tubes / chutes.
Each tube / chute has its own function to perform and it is ONLY when these three tubes / chutes are assembled together, do they then become an Escape Chute.
NOTE
There is a space between the OUTER LAYER and the MIDDLE LAYER allowing air to circulate between the two tubes, thus preventing heat transfer.