Escape Chute Industrial Escape Chute

INDUSTRIAL ESCAPE: Risk Safety Systems (RSSUS) are North American distributors for Escape Chute Systems and worldwide for the Onshore/Offshore Oil & Gas Industry.

With the Occupational Health & Safety and Fire Regulations codes, employers have a responsibility to provide adequate means of escape for workers operating at height. In the event of a hazard in the workplace or workstation of a tall structure, such workers have a right to egress quickly, which is the responsibility of the employer and safety managers. In many situations the escape chute provides the ideal solution in these type of emergency situations. Escape chutes can and are used in various industrial areas, anywhere where a worker could be trapped in an emergency situation with no other means of emergency egress. For example, with installation of an escape chute in grain silos, process plants, control towers, hydraulic mining shovels, overhead cranes, etc., in an emergency situation, workers can quickly get to the ground in less than a minute.

Emergency Escape Chutes For Mining Equipment

The application of Emergency Escape Chutes to provide emergency egress for fixed and mobile mining equipment was first initiated in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia in 1998.

The decision to apply the chute for mining equipment is increasing, particularly after a recent incident where a Hydraulic Shovel caught fire and the operator escaped injury by the use of an escape chute.

Installations on mining equipment require that the Chute and container be purpose built to suit that particular type of machine. RSSUS in conjunction with Escape Chute System will design a chute container to fit the working platform of each type of machine, RSSUS will custom design the Chute and container as a complete unit, ensuring that the system meets that customers particular needs.

RSSUS & Escape Chute Systems experience with installations on mining equipment has emphasized its importance in the way the Chute is housed in the container. A Chute in a mining machine needs to be able to withstand the harsh conditions of the mining environment. We have developed a specific method to store the Chute within its container, to protect from penetration by water, dust and to minimize damage from general mechanical vibration. RSSUS custom-design and supply the Chute to meet these demanding conditions. The container is fitted with a dust seal to ensure that the unit continues to be fully operational for the initial 6 months period after installation. This 6 month period also provides time to organize training of relevant personnel, who will carry out regular maintenance of the system, alternatively RSSUS can carry out a 6 monthly maintenance inspection.

Safety Recommendation:

Due to the demanding conditions experienced by such units, it is important and strongly recommended to have the Chute inspected every 6 months to ensure that the dust protection is replaced at every service. RSSUS recommend that 6 monthly checks should be carried out and on each inspection replace the dust seal. Vibration of the machinery will wear the dust protection seal and may damage the outer [fire-protective] layer of the Chute itself.

RSSUS can design an Escape Chute System to suite your particular needs, please call one of our fully trained representatives on:

Toll Free 1 866 447 8777 or email: sales@risksafetysystems.com