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Subpart E – Exit Route, Emergency Action Plans, and Fire Prevention Plans

Subpart E – Exit Route, Emergency Action Plans, and Fire Prevention Plans. Table of Contents for Subpart E - 1910.33 Coverage and Definitions - 1910.34 Exit Route compliance - 1910.35-38 Emergency Action Plans procedures - 1910.38 Fire Protection Plans procedures - 1910.39

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Subpart E – Exit Route, Emergency Action Plans, and Fire Prevention Plans

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  1. Subpart E – Exit Route, Emergency Action Plans, and Fire Prevention Plans Table of Contents for Subpart E - 1910.33 Coverage and Definitions - 1910.34 Exit Route compliance - 1910.35-38 Emergency Action Plans procedures - 1910.38 Fire Protection Plans procedures - 1910.39 Appendix to Subpart E (Guidelines for Subpart E) National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  2. Table of Content • 1910.34 Coverage and Definitions • Every employer is covered • Exit routes are covered • Definitions • 1910.35 Compliance with NFPA 101-2000, • Life Safety Code National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  3. Table of Content Cont. • 1910.36 Design and construction requirements for exit routes • Basic requirements • The number of exit routes must be adequate • Exit discharge • An exit door must be unlocked • A side-hinged exit door must be used • The capacity of an exit route must be adequate • An exit route must meet minimum height and width requirements • An outdoor exit route is permitted National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  4. Table of Content Cont. • 1910.37 Maintenance, safeguards, and operational features for exit routes • The danger to employees must be minimized • Lighting and marking must be adequate and appropriate • The fire retardant properties of paints or solutions must be maintained • Exit routes must be maintain during construction, repairs, or alterations • An employee alarm system must be operable National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  5. Table of Content Cont. • 1910.38 Emergency action plans • Application • Written and oral emergency action plans • Minimum elements of an emergency action plans • Employee alarm system • Training • Review of emergency action plan National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  6. Table of Content Cont. • 1910.39 Fire prevention plans • Application • Written and oral fire prevention plans • Minimum elements of a fire prevention plans • Employee information National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  7. Coverage and Definitions • .34(a) Every employer is covered – Sections .34-.39 [applies to workplaces in the general industry except mobile workplaces such as vehicles or vessels]. • .34(b) Exit routes are covered – covers the minimum requirements for exit routes that employers must provide…safe evacuation, emergency action and fire prevention plans for their employees. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  8. Coverage and Definitions • .34(c) Definitions: • Electroluminescent- a light-emitting capacitor (alternating current excites phosphor atoms when placed between electrical conductive surfaces which produces light) contained inside a device. • Exit - protected way of travel or a two-hour fire resistance-rated enclosed stairway that leads from the fifth floor of an office building to the outside of the building. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  9. Coverage and Definitions • Exit access - a portion of an exit route that leads to an exit or a corridor on the fifth floor of an office building that leads to a two-hour fire resistance-rated enclosed stairway. • Exit discharge - the part the exit route that leads directly outside or to a street, walkway, refuge area, public way or a two-hour fire resistance-rated enclosed stairway that discharges to a place of safety outside the building. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  10. Coverage and Definitions Cont. • Definitions • Exit route -a continuous and unobstructed path of exit travel from any point within a workplace to a place of safety or an exit route that consists of three parts: exit access; exit discharge and exit, and/or all vertical and horizontal areas along the route. • High hazardarea - a workplace in which operations has high hazard materials, processes, or contents. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  11. Coverage and Definitions Cont. • Definitions • Occupant load - total number of persons that may occupy a workplace or portion of a workplace at any one time. Occupant load of a workplace is calculated by dividing the gross floor area of an workplace by the occupant load factor for a particular type of workplace occupancy (See NFPA 101-2000, Life Safety Code). National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  12. Coverage and Definitions Cont. • Definitions • Refuge area means either: • space along an exit route that is protected or a separate spaces within a building that have at least a one-hour fire resistance rated barrier. • a floor with at least two spaces separated by smoke-resistant and automatic sprinkler systems that complies with 1910.159. • Self-luminous -a light source that is illuminated by a self-contained power source. Batteries are not acceptableself-contained power sources. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  13. Compliance w/ NFPA 101-2000, Life Safety Code • An employer who demonstrates compliance with the exit route provisions of NFPA 101-2000, the Life Safety Code, will be deemed to be in compliance with the corresponding requirements in Section .34 (Coverage/Definitions), .35(NFPA 101-2000 Life Safety Code), .37(Maintenance, safeguards, and operation features for exit routes). National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  14. Eat at Joe’s Place No ropes, or ladders Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(a)(1) Design and Construction requirement: • Exit routes must be permanent. • .36(a)(2) An exit must be separated by fire resistant materials. …construction material must use separate an exit from other workplace areas and must provide a one hour fire resistance exit route if the exit connects three or fewer stories… two hour, if more than four or more stories. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  15. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(a)(3) • Openings into an exit must be limited. • Opening into an exit must be protected by a self-closing fire door that remain closed or automatically closes in an emergency upon the sounding of an employee alarm system. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  16. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(b)(1) The • number of exit routes must adequate…at least two exit to permit prompt evacuation. • number of exit must be located far as far away as practical, if one exit route is blocked by smoke or fire. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  17. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(b)(2) more than two exit routes is needed, if the number of employees, the size of the building, its occupancy, or the arrangement of workplace is such that all employees would not be able to evacuate safely during an emergency National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  18. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(b)(3) A single exit route is permitted, if all employees are able to evacuate safely during an emergency National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  19. Exit Offices and storage Exit access Discharge Fabricating shop Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(c)(1) Exit discharge must lead directly outside or to a street, walkway, refuge area, public way. • .36(c)(2) …street, walkway, refuge area, public way to which an exit discharge must be large enough to accommodate the building occupants likely to use the exit route. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  20. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes Chemical Stock Room or Not An Exit • .36(c)(3) Exit stairs that continue beyond the level on which the exit discharge is located must be interrupted at the level by doors…or other effective means that clearly indicate the direction of travel leading to the exit discharge. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  21. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(d)(1) Exit door must be unlocked. Employees must be able to open an exit route door from the inside w/o a key or by simply by using a panic bar. • .36(d)(2) Exit route must be free of any device or alarm that could restrict emergency use. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  22. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(d)(3) Exit route doors may be locked from the inside only in mental, penal, or correctional facilities and onlyif supervisory personnel are continuously on duty and the employer has a plan to remove occupants from the facility during an emergency. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  23. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(e)(1) Side-hinged door must be used. A side-hinged must be used to connect any room to an exit route. • .36(e)(2) Door that connects any room to an exit route must swing out in the direction of travel, if the room is designed to be occupied by more than 50 people. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  24. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(f)(1) The capacity of an exit route must be adequate.. Exit routes must support the maximum permitted occupant load for each floor served. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  25. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(f)(2) The capacity of an exit route may not decrease in the direction of exit route travel to the exit discharge National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  26. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(g) Exit route must meet minimum height and width requirements. • ..36(g)(2) An exit access must be at least 28 inches wide at all points. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  27. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(g)(1) The ceiling of an exit route must be at least seven feet six inches(2.3m) high…w/o any projections from the ceiling must not reach a point less than six feet eight inches from the floor. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  28. Occupant load: • use and • square footage or equivalent • each floor Exit stair accommodates ½ occupant load Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(g)(3) The width of an exit route must be sufficient to accommodate the maximum permitted occupant load of each floor served by the exit route. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  29. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(g)(4) Objects that project into the exit routemust not reduce the width of the exit route to less that the minimum width requirements for exit routes. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  30. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(h) Outdoor exit route is permitted, if it meets the following requirements: • Minimum height and width • .36(h)(1) have guardrails to protect unenclosed sides if a fall hazard exit. • .36(h)(2) if snow or ice accumulations can be removed, which creates slipping hazards. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  31. Design and Construction requirements for exit routes • .36(h) Outdoor exit route is permitted, if it meets the following requirement • .36(h)(3) must be reasonably straight and have smooth, solid, substantially level walkways. • .36(h)(4) must not have a dead-end that’s longer than 20 feet (6.2m). National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  32. Maintenance, safeguards, and operational features for exit routes • Danger to employees must be minimized • .37(a)(1) Exit routes must be kept free of explosive or highly flammable furnishing or other decorations. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  33. Danger to employees must be minimized • - .37(a)(2) Exit routes must be arranged so that employees will not have to travel toward a high hazard area, unless the path of travel is effectively shielded from the high hazard area. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  34. Danger to employees must be minimized • .37(a)(3) Exit routes must be free and unobstructed. No materials or equipment may be placed, either permanently or temporarily, within the exit route National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  35. Danger to employees must be minimized • .37(a)(3) Cont. • …exit access must not go through a room that can be locked such as a bathroom, to reach an exit or exit discharge, nor may it lead into a dead-end corridor. • …stair or ramps must be provided where the exit route is not substantially level. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  36. Danger to employees must be minimized • .37(a)(4) Safeguards designed to protect employees during an emergency (e.g. sprinkler systems, alarm systems, fire doors, exit lighting) must be in proper working order at all times. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  37. Lighting and marking be adequate and appropriate • .37(b)(1) Lighting and marking must be adequate and appropriate • .37(b)(2) Each exit must be clearly visible and marked by a sign reading “Exit”. • .37(b)(3) Each exit route door must be free of decorations or signs that obscure the visibility of the exit route door. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  38. Lighting and marking be adequate and appropriate • .37(b)(4) if the direction of travel to the exit or exit discharge is not immediately apparent, signs must be posted along the exit access indicating the direction of travel to the nearest exit discharge. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  39. Lighting and marking be adequate and appropriate • .37(b)(5) Each doorway or passage along an exit access that could be mistaken for an exit must be marked “Not an Exit”. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  40. Lighting and marking be adequate and appropriate • .37(b)(6) Each exit sign must be illuminated to a surface value of at least five-foot candles(54 lux) by a reliable light source and be distinctive in color. • .37(b)(7) Each exit sign must have the word “Exit” in plainly legible letters not less than six inches high. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  41. Maintenance, safeguards, and operational features for exit routes • .37(c) Fire retardant properties of paints or solutions must bemaintained. • Must be renewed as often as necessary to maintain their fire retardant properties. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  42. Exit routes must be maintained during construction, repairs or alteration • .37(d)(1) Exit routes must be maintained during construction, repairs. • .37(d)(2) Employees must not occupy a workplace unless the exit routes are available and existing fire protections are maintained and provides an equivalent level of safety. • . stairway National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  43. Exit routes must be maintained during construction, repairs or alteration • .37(d)(3) Employees must not be exposed to hazards of flammable or explosive substances that are beyond the normal permissible conditions in the workplace. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  44. Employee alarm system must be operable • .37(e) An employee alarm system must be operable • Employers must install a distinctive signal to warn employees of fire or other emergencies, unless employees can promptly see or smell a fire or other hazards in time. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  45. Emergency action plans • .38(a) An employer must have an emergency plan whenever an OSHA standard in this part requires one. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  46. Emergency action plans • .38(b) Written and oral emergency action plans • Must be in writing • Kept in the workplace • Available for employees to review • However, an employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  47. Emergency action plans • .38(c) Minimum elements of an emergency action plan: • Procedures for reporting a fire or other emergency • Procedure for emergency evacuation, exit route assignments National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  48. Emergency action plans • .38(c) Minimum elements of an emergency action plan: • Procedure for employees who remain to operated critical plant operations before evacuating • Procedures to account for all employees after evacuation • Procedures for performing rescue or medical duties National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  49. Emergency action plans • .38(c)(6) Name or job title of every employee who may be contacted by employees who need more information about the plan or an explanation of their duties under the plan. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

  50. Emergency action plans • .38(d) Employee alarm system. Employee alarm system must use a distinctive signal for each purpose and comply with 1910.165. • .38(e) Training- employer must designate and train an employee to assist in a safe and orderly evacuation of other employees. National Safety Educational Center 1-800-656-5317

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