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Risk Safety Systems US Inc, introduce our new range of Code Red™ Survival Kits

February 2009

Risk Safety Systems US Inc, launched its range of Code Red™ Personnel Survival Kits in February 2009. RSSUS Inc designed this unique range of survival kits to provide a last means of escape and survival if the worst were to happen. We live in a volatile world with natural disasters on the increase.

With global warming effecting weather conditions we are now experiencing more Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Tornados and Forest Fires, these events are becoming more frequent, this is not including, natural disasters such as Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions and Severe Weather Conditions.

Although natural disasters account for a large number of fatalities, we also need to consider the risk of Fire within or day-day environments and the loss of live and injuries caused by fire, this includes, Home and Office including High Rise Buildings, Vehicular, Marine, Offshore, Aviation, Industrial, Petrochemical, Leisure, Adventure and many more. The list is endless!

RSSUS Inc. Have developed a comprehensive range of survival kits designed to provide escape or protection in the most severe of situations. These survival kits are unlike most others available on the market, these tend to be First Aid focused. The Code Red™ range of survival kits were designed by professional risk experts, with over thirty years experience in providing fire safety, risk assessment, fatality and probability studies and solutions worldwide, for the most volatile industry in the world, the Offshore Oil & Gas industry. What cost would you put on your life and that of your families, this is not an attempt to alarm people, but we must accept that we live in a volatile world. Check this web-site for our full range of Survival Kits, Smoke Hoods, Escape Chutes & Descent Devices. Below is an article for the NFPA showing fire statistics - February 2005

General Company News

• Risk Safety Systems have procured a contract to supply a Houston based Company with our 15 minute breathable air Smoke

Hoods, Offshore Survival Kits and Donut Descent Devices.

• RSSUS are currently in negotiations with a National Residential Care Home, to supply Descent Devices and Smoke Hoods for over

a 1000 residential care facilities within the US.

• RSSUS and have developed a new offshore Fully Integrated escape Chute called IECS. Eight of these systems have been supplied to Exxon Mobil in Angola

and fully operational. IECS is designed to provide vertical evacuation directly to the 25 man holding raft with 12/25 or 50 man Life Rafts deployed from the

skid using the front facing life raft cradle, this deploys at the same time as the lower trap chute door opens. The painter lines of the 12/25/or 50 man rafts are

attached to the holding raft. Click here for full information

National Fire Protection Reports and Statistics - February 2005

Carbon monoxide incidents jump 18%
U.S. fire departments responded to an average of seven calls per hour for non-fire carbon monoxide incidents in 2005. Learn to protect your family, and how an NFPA technical committee is expanding NFPA 720 to make all occupancies safer.

The U.S. fire problem

In 2005, there were 1,602,000 fires reported in the United States (down 3% from 2004). These fires caused 3,675 civilian deaths, 17,925 civilian injuries, 87 firefighter deaths, and $10.7 billion in property damage.

• 511,000 were structure fires (down 3% from 2004), causing 3,105 civilian deaths, 15,325 civilian injuries, and $9.2 billion in property damage.

• 290,000 were vehicle fires (down 2% from 2004), causing 520 civilian fire deaths, 1,650 civilian fire injuries, and $1.3 billion in property damage.

• 801,000 were outside and other fires (up 10% from 2004), causing 50 civilian fire deaths, 950 civilian fire injuries, and $0.2 billion in property damage.

The 2005 U.S. fire loss clock

• A fire department responded to a fire every 20 seconds.

• One structure fire was reported every 62 seconds

• One home structure fire was reported every 83 seconds

• One civilian fire injury was reported every 29 minutes

• One civilian fire death occurred every 2 hours and 23 minutes.

• One outside fire was reported every 39 seconds.

• One vehicle fire was reported every 109 seconds.

EMAIL US SAFETY OR SURVIVAL RELATED STORIES AND ARTICLES.

Amazing Survival Stories - extract from The Oprah Winfrey Show and Interview with Carol Melton

In the fall of 2003, a fire started in an office building in downtown Chicago. The fire started on the 12th floor of a 35-story building, trapping many workers in the building with no way out. Firefighters were able to put out the flames, but six people lost their lives that day.

Attorney Carol Melton was trapped in the building with three co-workers who did not survive. She remembered, "We heard the announcement that there was a fire and entered the stairwell. We were going very quickly down the stairs, and we saw a firefighter who told us to go back up." As they climbed up the stairs, the smoke grew darker and more suffocating, and they could hear other people in the stairwell screaming and praying. "I could feel the smoke in my ears," Carol said. For full story visit www.oprah.com