Fire Exit Sign

[Psuedonym]

Contraversial is my middle name.  If a door is a fire exit just put a fire exit sign on it.

What else would people do other than walk through it?  Perhaps with an up arrow by the door people will try and climb through the fanlight over the door?

Sorry WB, i was waffling about the guidance route to the F/E i.e. How to get to the fanlight not what to do when you got there....It's a Final Exit sign at the F/E  - no arrow

[jokar]

Ahh, but what do you do once outside.  How do people disperse, where do they disperse to.  Rhode island had a classic whereby people could leave but could not disperse, then you get back up of people that turned into bodies.  Unfortunately as a result of attempts to "do" DDA correctly many premises now have barriers outside with steps to one side and a ramp to the other.  You need easy flow and then when people have to make a decision you have a pause and then stopping of the people behind.

[wee brian]

Well I doubt that a sign would have helped.

Not putting pyrotechnics under exposed poly-whatsname insulation would have been a better idea.

[Psuedonym]

What about the marvellous Tactile Rip Off Signs? Imagine: F/A screaming away, blind chap alone on a ground floor corridor with a F/E at the end. What does he do? Well of course the company have informed him of their DDA awareness and the fact that these things are at head height to aid his MoE, so he spends the rest of his life, before being overcome by fumes, with his hands on a wall looking for a Fire Exit Arrow Right or Left in "Tactile" !?!?!?!?
What a bloody dangerous con.

These things are fine in the right location: A hotel bedroom with a tactile fire action notice for example is very practical.