Wish all my fellow Indians a HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY. It is exactly on this day 74 years ago India became free from the British rule. We have progressed quite a lot and still a lot remains to be done. We all need to proactively work towards making the country safe, and by doing that we build a stronger and a healthy country. Let us on this day Pledge to be SAFE and cut down life loss in Emergency situations.
The world is going through a tough pandemic time and everyone of us has been affected. But this pandemic has forced us to think better and improve ourselves. We are doing many things which we had never done before. During an online interview of mine a question was asked what is new in the field of Safety and are there any one innovating in the field of safety? This blog is dedicated to one such man, who not only dared to innovate, but even put up a manufacturing unit for the products he innovated upon.
Mr. Jayasheel Adapa, is the founder director of Usha Fire Safety Equipments Pvt Ltd, Managing Director of Usha Armour Pvt Ltd and Managing Director of Resguardo Industries Pvt. Ltd. An Engineer by profession, an innovator at heart, and a business man with a noble cause, he is instrumental today in patenting and marketing Innovative Rescue Products in India. A passionate trainer, who believes that a trainer should not only train, but identify and eliminate gaps in safety and rescue. This part of him has led to many innovations in manufacturing and marketing rescue products. His innovations are many and hence this blog will be in 2 parts.
As a trainer while conducting Evacuation drills or Fire drills in high rises, one of the major factors is about evacuating people with special challenges like mobility impairments or expectant mothers. During a drill they are exempted from participation, or they are evacuated in advance. However, in real time what do they do and where do they go and how they will be rescued? In advanced countries an Evacuation Rescue Chair is used for the same. They are made available in all the floors over there and the ERT (EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM) use it to save lives. A thought occurred to Jayasheel why not we make the same in India. He not only started manufacturing them, but even patented the product, something which not many do in India. This chair basically moves like a wheel chair on the floor and can glide on the stairwell to evacuate people with mobility impairments.
A separate model of the chair was designed for hospital use also where one can easily hang the intravenous tubes and keep all the relevant documents of the patient in a pouch. This helps in evacuating a patient from a hospital despite all the challenges.
We all are familiar with a wheel chair but how many of us are familiar with a liftable wheel chair? This Innovative chair is not only a wheel chair but it can also be lifted. The Liftable wheel chair was designed by him to evacuate people trapped in basements, and where there are no ramps it is difficult to bring up injured people. This equipment helps rescuers to easily and quickly rescue persons from basements. This product too is patented and manufactured by him.
One of the most important elements of rescue or medical evacuation is to carry patients in a stretcher. Most stretchers do not fit into elevators and the staircase is the only option. When the victim is carried in usually his legs protrude out, and if oxygen has to be administered it is even more difficult. Two problems which did not really have a solution till Jayasheel thought of it and designed a stretcher, with a Foot pouch to lock the feet, and a pouch for a portable oxygen cylinder. Now rescue and medical evacuation have become easier. It requires a high level of thinking to understand the problem, and to arrive at this kind of innovative solutions.
For the ERT team doing the evacuation one situation they always have to encounter during a fire is deadly smoke. We have discussed about smoke in the earlier blogs, and we know exactly what to do. But for the last person coming out, the density of smoke could increase and the life can be in danger, and here is where the Escape Smoke Hood comes into play. It is made of fire-retardant fabric and has a cartridge with chemicals, that can filter deadly gases like Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen Cyanide, Acrolein to name a few for a period of 15 minutes. This enables the last person whether an ERT, production manager in a factory, a doctor in an OT, and even a resident coming out of his home to be protected from Smoke.
When all these products were imported, one man dared to produce all these in his factory in India. All the products are registered with the Controller General of Patents and Trademarks, Government of India and other International approvals like LPCB. This to me signifies Aatmnirbhar Bharat, the clarion call of the Prime Minister of India. More such products and innovations from Mr.Jayasheel in my next blog.
Till then stay safe and be safe.
Seshadri Varadarajan.
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For more info on the products visit www.resguardo.com
Good innovative products sir. Making the world a better place to live.
Mr.Addap great job done in making these very useful special equipments.
Great innovation sir👏👏
I’m sure most of us are unaware of these equipment, thanks for sharing… 🙏
Superb as usual
Public and Corporates should be made known about these products and wide publicity may be given for the utility of these life saving products
Got to know abt various innovative items in fire rescue operation and safety , Superb sir 🎉
Great write up and informative message
Sesha… firstly, I should congratulate you in the new initiate you took up of blogging a year back among so many other activities you are involved in for bringing the change in lives if people.
I have seen, Read and gone thru your blogs written on various aspects of safety and equipment. I must say, you write and explain it very well where we common people come to know a lot and understand easily. As friend known to you since childhood, yet, you have been a revelation in your continued pursuits of training, writing articles on Fire safety saving, improving lives of people thru your endeavors.
Overbthe past one year, your inputs and information of people, situations and reasons for improvement in the field of Safety & Precautions from Fire hazards has been exemplary.
I urge you to continue in your pursuits of excellence in the fields passionate and close to your heart. Vast improvement in writing skills… now you are ready for the Book too I guess.
All the Very Best. Keep Rocking !!!
Thank you Nitin. Coming from a friend who expects Excellence, Comments from you are a Compliment. Trust i will live up to the expectation set by you.
Nice and informative
Lovely Sir!!
Seshadri it was great motivation for all the people who still thinking about make in India concept. Jaysheel sir has showed it’s possible to stop importing and make exporting the Indian products. Thank you for you to right about sir. I am proud to be associated with such great personality. It was wonderful blog
Dear Sheshadri. Thank you for the fantastic initiative to spread this information on innovative solutions to save lives in emergency. I am indeed fortunate to have seen each of the equipment mentioned during our few joint exercises that were conducted in the recent past.
Hats off to Mr Jaysheel Adappa for introducing such innovative solutions.
As always, my services are always there in support of such initiatives and creating awareness. I am thrilled by the scope of the usage and it’s utility value – saving lives.
To you – I always admired your passion for writing and creating awareness.
Thanks Everyone of you for the comments. Keep them coming as it inspires me.
Very informative and a useful piece of blog!!!!!
A nice write up. Sir. Congrats once again to your blog. my most and more wishes for yourblogs to reach more people. A very important message delivered in a very simple and lucid manner to the society. 🙏
Very striking title and very apt content!
Jayasheel sir is a real inspiration👍
Thank you Seshadri sir for this useful and informative blog.
Real inspiring man and great and useful products
Sir, your blogs are always informative and niche write up . Thank you for sharing this . Adappa sir has always been an amazing leader . Truly inspires everyone and motivates us to explore all our positive traits … thanks again
An eye opening article. Lots of valuable info on fire safety equipments.
Wonderful to see such life-saving innovations in India. Thank you for sharing about such great achievements in this blog.
The design of the blog is very sleek. Valuable content in an attractive design.
Very proud of you !
Great and clear thought pattern has been displayed by Mr. Adapa for innovating these life saving equipment.
You have done a great explanation Sesha, as it’s tough to put ones thought into words. Can we look forward to a few 15 sec. Videos to take these words and images to the next level?
Mind blowing article Sir.Keep rocking
Thanks for the insights. I have heard many inspiring stories about Adappa sir. Look forward for more such informative articles.
Thank you. This Adapa sir is the younger Brother of my boss and mentor Jagadish Adapa.
Good intiative sir🤝.. kuddos👏
Came to know about various equipments for saftey .. Very good article sir👌✨ .. Very informative and pls write more articles like this sir, we all can know lots of information ..
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