EM : MEANS OF EGRESS

Emergency Exit

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Chapter:- Emergency Management

MEANS OF EGRESS

Emergency Evacuation Drill Procedures:

• Employees are required to evacuate during emergency evacuation drills
• The primary functions of these drills are:
• Ensure fire protection equipment is operating properly
• Employee training on how to properly evacuate
• When the alarm sounds, employees are to safely and promptly evacuate the building using a designated evacuation route.
• Once outside the building, proceed to the emergency meeting site.

Discovering a Fire or Smoke at Work: 

Remember R.A.C.E.

• RELOCATE- If it is safe to do so, relocate people in immediate danger. Instruct others to report to their designated gathering areas. Be aware of persons who may need assistance.
• ALARM- Pull the building fire alarm to alert others. Move to a safe location. Call 108 immediately,and report the precise location of the fire
• CONFINE- Close all doors, windows and other openings to confine the fire, if this can be done safely.
• EVACUATE- Evacuate building. Do not use elevators. Go to your area of refuge outside at meeting site.

Fire Rated Stairwells:

• Materials storage is prohibited in all fire rated stairwells.
• Each fire door including frame and hardware must be listed or approved by a nationally recognized testing facility.
• Employees must be able to open an exit route door from the inside at all times without keys, tools, or special knowledge.
• Fire doors are only allowed to be held open by magnet door holds.
• Remove all door wedges, latches, coat hangers, fire extinguishers, etc. that are being used to hold doors open.
• Fire doors must be able to close fully on their own.

Exit Route Capacity:

• The ceiling of an exit route must be at least seven feet six inches (2.3 m) high.
• An exit access must be at least 28 inches (71.1 cm) wide at all points. Where there is only one exit access leading to an exit or exit discharge, the width of the exit and exit discharge must be at least equal to the width of the exit access.
• Objects that project into the exit route must not reduce the width of the exit route to less than the minimum width requirements for exit routes.

Emergency Exit doors :- An emergency exit in a building or other structure is a special exit used during emergencies such as fires. The combined use of regular and emergency exits allows for faster evacuation, and emergency exits provide alternative means of evacuation if regular exits are inaccessible.

1. Are doors required to serve as exits designed and constructed so that the way of exit travel is obvious and direct?                                                                               
2. Are windows that could be mistaken for exit doors made inaccessible by barriers railing?           
3. Are exit doors able to open from the direction of exit travel without the use of a key or special knowledge or effort?