Osha Emergency Exit Door Sign Requirements
An exit access must be at least 28 inches wide.
Osha emergency exit door sign requirements. Post signs along the exit access indicating the direction of travel to the nearest exit and exit discharge if that direction is not immediately apparent. Stairways which are not used as an exit or emergency according to 1910 24 d may have a minimum stair width of 22 inches. 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. The osha exit route requirements 1910 36 g 2 state that the minimum width of any way of exit access shall in no case be less than 28 inches.
1910 36 d 3 an exit route door may be locked from the inside only in mental penal or correctional facilities and then only if supervisory personnel are continuously on duty and the employer has a plan to remove occupants from the facility during an emergency. Also the line of sight to an exit sign must be clearly visible at all times. This standard was adopted from nfpa 101 1970 the life safety code. The occupational safety and health administration osha standard at 29 cfr 1910 37 b 7 requires exit signs to be not less than six inches 15 2 cm high with the principal strokes of the letters in the word exit not less than three fourths of an inch 1 9 cm wide.
Self luminous or electroluminescent signs that have a minimum luminance surface value of at least 06 footlamberts 0 21 cd m 2 are permitted. Exit route doors must be free of any device or alarm that could restrict emergency use of the exit route if the device or alarm fails. Any room connected to an exit route must have a side hinged door that swings outward if more than 50 people occupy the room. Keep exit route doors free of decorations or signs that obscure the visibility of exit route doors.