Under certain conditions it is permissible to plan an exterior route as a way
of exit
access from one interior part of a building to another or to an exterior exit.
Specific requirements for exterior access routes include the following:
- Smooth, solid, level floors
- Guard rails on open sides above ground level
- Covered by roof if snow or ice could accumulate
- Permanent, reasonably straight route of travel
- No obstruction to use of exterior access route
- No dead ends longer than 20 feet.
Normally, when we think of an "exit", we
visualize a door or doorway through which one can pass from the inside to the outside. But
an "exit" can also be an interior stairwell, an anteroom, or an exterior
"fire escape."
An exit is the portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other spaces by a
door or balcony, etc., to provide a protected way of travel to the exit
discharge. |
