High rise evacuation system receives SAFETY certification

Good news for Sanford, Florida-based High Rise Escape Systems: DHS has designated the company’s primary products, the Guardian and Responder emergency evacuation systems, as “Qualified Anti-terrorism technologies” under the 2002 SAFETY Act. The company says that its product is the first supplemental evacuation product in the United States to be certified under the Safety Act. “Since 9-11 the U.S. economy has moved from a service based economy to a security based economy,” observed Ryan Alles, president of the company. “This certification puts High Rise Escape Systems, Inc. in the company of numerous internationally respected corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and many others who have responded to our government’s call to develop products that will help protect the lives and property of Americans around the country and the world.”

This new designation for High Rise opens a number of new marketing opportunities with commercial, municipal and governmental entities around the United States and the world. Still, “The real challenge for products like ours lies in convincing the status-quo mentality of the commercial and civilian marketplaces to provide crucial, yet cost-effective safe guards before a major problem occurs,” explained Alles. “Schools prepare their students with fire drills and bad weather procedures, giving everyone a plan for a worst case scenario. Thank God these procedures are not used very often, but they’re in place just in case.”