Emergency Travel Safety Tips for Overnight Stays

Personal Support:

1. * Determine how you will get emergency help, if needed.

1.1 Consider asking more than one person at the event [family, friends or colleagues] to check on you in the event of an emergency. This is important so you have at least one back-up if your primary person forgets, or is not available.

1.2 * Don’t use the door night latch or dead bolt lock button on your door if you will need evacuation assistance as you may not be able to get to the door in an emergency. 

2. *Think through how best to ask for help quickly [from people you may not know] and give clear instructions on the kind of help you will need.

2.1 * Practice giving quick, clear and quick [sic] instructions on how others can assist you. For example, how can they safely move you if you need to be carried with or without your wheelchair or another mobility device?

2.1.1 Include areas of caution and vulnerability to safely assist, transfer, and move you.

2.1.2 If you want to be carried in your wheelchair make sure this is realistic, considering how much your wheelchair weighs with you in it.