Scottish national gallery is using our EZ Glide chair

Scotland’s National Gallery has acquired the new EZ Glide® PowerTraxx™ chair along with specialist training support from yours truly.
The National Gallery will use the chair to manoeuvre disabled or injured visitors during emergency situations, increasing the safety and wellbeing of visitors to the gallery.
The EZ Glide has been designed to meet the demanding needs of medical and disaster response services, and enables the moving of patients up and down stairs with the touch of a button, eliminating the need for lifting or carrying and reducing the risk of injury to medical staff.
This is the first chair of its kind in the industry. It has multiple uses as a stair chair, evacuation chair or transport chair and is suitable for many different environments.
Our work with the National Gallery is a perfect example of what we can offer to our customers in terms of service delivery – not only a great product but also high quality support training to ensure they get the very best out of their investment.”
Because the chair weighs in at only 27kg the operator can easily control the chair at all times and is able to slow, stop, and reverse the direction of the chair at the touch of a button.
Specialist training was delivered by Ferno’s training partner, North East & Yorkshire Healthcare Service (NEYHS), a national training organisation with many years experience and an excellent track record for delivering high quality and cost effective training programmes.
A particular area of expertise is our ability to ‘customise’ and ‘tailor’ courses and programmes to suit a wide range of customer and clients’ needs, which is what we did with the National Gallery.
“The EZ Glide chair will be extremely useful” said Michael Clarke, Director of the Scottish National Gallery. “The practicality and ease of use of the chair will help the Gallery aid disabled visitors as well as ensuring the safety of all visitors in the event of an accident or emergency.
“We found the training programme to be invaluable. It gave us the opportunity to learn about the full potential of the chair and all its uses, meaning that we are likely to use it far more than we would have done.”