Additional MCP required?

[messy]

I agree that apply logic is sometimes better than simply hugging the BS.

I once worked at a fire station with 3 appliance bays (so 3 separate appliance room doors at the front and three more at the back giving access to the yard)

A fire alarm system was installed - and yes you've guessed it - instead of the required 3 MCPs, there were 8 MCPs installed in this one 10m x 15m space. (1 for every appliance room door. 1 for a rear 'pedestrian' door to the yard and one by another door which lead to a staircase).

When all appliance doors were opened, they folded back against each other so you could only reach 2 out of the 6 MCPs installed by each vehicle door.

In any case, with a MCP (on average) every 6.5 metres around the compartment, the room looked more like a fire alarm company's showroom than a fire station!

[David Rooney]

Can't you take away the ladder and forget that it's an exit ??

And say its a rather large window...? 

Well if you need a ladder to reach it then it sounds daft to me.... and like a window !!

There are two exits with MCPs and I don't see the point of another one on an exit only leading to a terrace.

Shouldn't the ladder also then be assessed and inspected... and then everyone likely to use it trained in its safe use ??!!