";s:4:"text";s:3270:" Emergency Exit Routes How would you escape from your workplace in an emergency? Keep your building safe. 1.1 The common term ‘Fire Door’ usually means one of two door uses: Doors on escape routes or Final Exit doors: 1.2 In order to allow persons to evacuate from buildings in the event of a fire, doors on the means of escape routes must satisfy certain criteria to allow persons to … This means that in the event of a fire, all of these doors will close and latch without a person's help. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is the agency charged with enforcing workplace safety regulations. Still, the requirements remain a mystery for many architects and specifiers. Whereas a fire door is an internal door designed to compartmentalise a section of a building in the event of a fire and/or protect an escape route through it for a minimum length of time, typically 30 minutes (FD30), it is not necessary for a fire exit door at the end of the escape route to be of fire resisting standard or to be kept closed. Find out what you must comply with for safety. Sliding or revolving doors must not be used for exits specifically intended as fire exits. All fire doors have an additional safety feature – they must be self-closing and self-latching.