How do you evacuate a baby from the ski lift? My resort uses the T-seat to evac guests. A baby cannot be evacuated using this system. Keep in mind the boss doesn't want to spend money on an updated system. I'm curious what other resorts have for a policy or procedure. Any help out there?
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Lift Evacuation
Started by lift rat, Jul 13 2010 05:49 AM
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 06:42 PM
lift rat, on 13 July 2010 - 05:49 AM, said:
How do you evacuate a baby from the ski lift? My resort uses the T-seat to evac guests. A baby cannot be evacuated using this system. Keep in mind the boss doesn't want to spend money on an updated system. I'm curious what other resorts have for a policy or procedure. Any help out there?
A large heavy sac, with appropriate load-rated sewn-in slings, works well with children of all sizes as well as small adults. This was on a summer-gondola, where a rescuer visited each cabin to assist in the "passenger loading" into the sac. Works very well. As soon as they are in the bag you push em' out... no chance to complain.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 07:59 PM
mthornton, on 13 July 2010 - 06:42 PM, said:
A large heavy sac, with appropriate load-rated sewn-in slings, works well with children of all sizes as well as small adults. This was on a summer-gondola, where a rescuer visited each cabin to assist in the "passenger loading" into the sac. Works very well. As soon as they are in the bag you push em' out... no chance to complain.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
I like it! I forgot about gondolas - I guess babies would be OK in them! We were quizzed on how to manually evacuate a guest who is also having some sort of medical problem and unable to get on the T themselves.
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 08:45 AM
mthornton, on 13 July 2010 - 06:42 PM, said:
A large heavy sac, with appropriate load-rated sewn-in slings, works well with children of all sizes as well as small adults. This was on a summer-gondola, where a rescuer visited each cabin to assist in the "passenger loading" into the sac. Works very well. As soon as they are in the bag you push em' out... no chance to complain.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
I've been told that this method works. We purchased a swamy bag- (unsure of the spelling and other names for it) Basically you sit in it and there are 6 straps with d-rings that come under your legs, sides and back, you can hook the rings into a beaner or rope, when you are lowered, you are seated with your hands free, so mom could hold the child... or put the kid in the bag (if they don't squirm.) I have not used it with a child / baby yet but I feel that it will work. Might take some explaining to get the guest to understand how to safely get into it/ you might have to climb in the chair to help them. We have not used it in an actual evac, we use the under the arm style harness for the other guests.
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Posted 15 July 2010 - 08:02 AM
mthornton, on 13 July 2010 - 06:42 PM, said:
A large heavy sac, with appropriate load-rated sewn-in slings, works well with children of all sizes as well as small adults. This was on a summer-gondola, where a rescuer visited each cabin to assist in the "passenger loading" into the sac. Works very well. As soon as they are in the bag you push em' out... no chance to complain.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
When not in use, the same sac stores the rope & lowering gear.
We use this system in addition to the Sitting-T for guest who are afraid of heights as well as small children and infants. It allows one of the rescuers to assist the guests into the sac. We rarely use it, but we have it. We usually just use the T.
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Posted 19 July 2010 - 05:39 PM
We use a 'baby bag' which is basically a load-rated sack with holes for the legs and a D-ring to tie the evac rope to. Our summer protocol calls for a 'line rider' to ride the haul rope to every chair and assist with the standard T-seat evacuation, and that person would place the infant/small toddler in the bag and lower him or her to the ground crew.
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Posted 22 July 2010 - 07:48 AM
T-Seat? What the heck is that? I'm just a newbie, but this sounds cool
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