How wide does a path to egress need to be?

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## Part 8 Entrances, Walkways, Stairways and Ladders ## Entrances, Walkways, Stairways ## Safe entry and exit 119 (1) An employer must ensure that every worker can enter a work area safely and leave a work area safely at all times. - 119 (2) An employer must ensure that a work area's entrances and exits are in good working order. - 119 (3) An employer must ensure that a work area's entrances and exits are free from materials, equipment, accumulations of waste or other obstructions that might endanger workers or restrict their movement. - 119 (4) An employer must ensure that, if a worker could be isolated from a primary escape route, - (a) there is a ready, convenient and safe secondary means of escape from the work area, and - (b) the secondary escape route is readily useable at all times. - 119 (5) An employer must ensure that all workers are familiar with escape routes from the work area. ## Doors 120 (1) An employer must ensure that doors to and from a work area can be opened without substantial effort and are not obstructed. - 120 (2) An employer must ensure that a door used to enter or leave an enclosed area that poses a hazard to workers entering the area - (a) is kept in good working order, and - (b) has a means of opening it from the inside at all times. ## Walkways, runways and ramps - 121 (1) An employer must ensure that a walkway, runway or ramp - (a) is strong enough to support the equipment and workers who may use it, - (b) is at least 600 millimetres wide, - (c) is wide enough to ensure the safe movement of equipment and workers, and - (d) has the appropriate toe boards and guardrails required by Part 22. - 121 (2) An employer must ensure that the surface of a walkway, runway or ramp has sufficient traction to allow workers to move on it safely. - 121 (3) Repealed. ## Stairways - 122 (1) An employer must ensure that

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## E EXITS & EXIT ROUTES Note: You may lock or block an exit door from the inside in a mental, penal, or correctional institution, if supervisory personnel are continuously on duty and a plan exists to remove occupants during an emergency. - (d) An exit must lead directly outside or to a street, walkway, refuge area, or to an open space with access to the outside. - (e) Exit stairs that continue beyond the floor of exit discharge must have doors, partitions, or other effective means at the floor of exit discharge to assure that the direction of exit travel is clear to employees. - (f) Use only a side-hinged exit door to connect any room to an exit route. The door must swing out if the room can hold more than 50 persons or has highly flammable or explosive materials in it. - (g) Each exit route must be able to handle the maximum-permitted occupant load for each floor served by it. The capacity of a path to the exit must not decrease as people move toward the exit. - (h) The exit route must be at least 6 feet 8 inches high at all points. - (i) An exit route must be at least 28 inches wide at all points between handrails and wider if needed to handle the occupant load. - (j) Objects that project into the exit route must not reduce the minimum height and width of the exit route. - (k) Repair or replace damaged or altered fire retardant coatings to keep their original retardant effectiveness. ## (5) Access. - (a) There must be unobstructed access to exit routes. - (b) Exit routes must not pass through or into lockable rooms or dead ends. - (c) Exit routes must be mostly level or have stairs or ramps. ## (6) Outside and refuge areas. - (a) The street, walkway, refuge area, or open space to which an exit leads must be large enough to accommodate all building occupants likely to use that exit. - (b) A refuge area must be: - (A) a space along an exit route protected from the effects of fire either by separation from other spaces within the building or by its loca…