During a fire, unobstructed emergency egress ensures that building occupants, including workers, can exit a building to safety. This “Client Handout” provides small business owners a means of identifying potential problem areas that may occur with emergency egress from their buildings. Any question answered “No” should be thoroughly investigated and corrective actions taken.
Questions | Yes | No | N/A | |
Are all exits marked with an exit sign and illuminated by a reliable light source? | ||||
Are the directions to exits, when not immediately apparent, marked with a visible sign? | ||||
Are doors, passageways or stairways that are neither exits nor access to exits, and which could be mistaken for exits, appropriately marked “NOT AN EXIT”? | ||||
Are exit signs provided with the word “EXIT”? | ||||
Are all exits kept free from obstructions? | ||||
Are at least two means of egress provided from elevated platforms, pits, or rooms where the absence of a second exit would increase the risk of injury from a hot, poisonous, corrosive, suffocating, flammable, or explosive substance? | ||||
Are there sufficient exits, as required by local building or life safety codes, to permit prompt escape in case of emergency? | ||||
Are precautions taken to protect employees during construction and repair operations? | ||||
Are exit doors designed and constructed so that the means of exit access is maintained? | ||||
Are windows, which could be mistaken for exit doors, marked “NOT AN EXIT”? | ||||
Are exit doors operable from the direction of exit travel without the use of a key or any special knowledge or effort when the building is occupied? | ||||
Where panic hardware is installed on a required exit door, will it allow the door to open by applying a force of 15 lbs (6.8 kg) or less in the direction of the exit traffic? | ||||
Are doors on cold storage rooms provided with an inside release mechanism that will release the latch and open the door even if a door padlocked or otherwise locked? | ||||
Where exit doors open directly onto a street, alley or other area where vehicles may be operated, are adequate barriers and warnings provided? | ||||
Are doors that swing in both directions, and which are located between rooms where there is frequent traffic, provided with viewing panels in each door? |
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