Wedging open fire doors

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Hi Piglet,

If the people with dementia etc. are legally in custody, the exemptions apply.

If they are in a care home (etc.) there is no exemption from the 'easily and immediately'. However, in such circumstances the specialised nature of the 'client group' would limit the 'easily and immediately' to authorised persons (normally staff). How the necessary outcomes are achieved require consideration and agreement between the carers, the fire risk asseessor and the enforcing authority.

In most cases the enforcing authority are sympathetic to specialised fire safety outcomes and do not blithely demand free and open egress where such a provision would create problems.