General Emergency Evacuation Plan(GEEP)

Fire Safety Information for any visitor with a mobility, visual, or hearing impairment

Welcome to Sussex Downs College. Whilst you are our guest, we wish to ensure that you are fully aware of our procedures in the event of an emergency evacuation. Please ensure your host is fully aware of the type of assistance you require to help you safely evacuate any of our buildings.

The college does not have any fire protected lifts across any of our sites and therefore they must not be used during an emergency evacuation of that building.

All main stairwells are fire protected and most landings are safe refuge points. These can be identified by this sign:-

These areas will provide protection for up to 2 hours.

Our evacuation procedure is as follows:-

Emergency lighting is fitted in all buildings and standard fire doors will afford you at least ½ protection if the fire is immediately the other side.

All buildings with floors above ground level have evacuation sledges.

The Eastbourne Campus has three buildings that are interlinked with a fire monitoring system throughout. This allows horizontal evacuation to be used in Tyler House, Grove House and Eversley House and as long as the alarm has not been activated in the adjoining building, the lift in that building maybe used to access the lower floors.

On hearing the alarm your host will escort you to the nearest safe refuge point.

Once there they will either stay with you until the fire warden arrives or they will assist you on the stairs once the main bulk of people have evacuated. This is to prevent overcrowding and crushing in stairwells.

If you require to be evacuated, either a trained member of staff or the fire brigade will carry this out.