Fire Code: Fire Department rules and Fire Department safety policies regarding individuals that are responsible to assist in maintaining fire safety in indoor and outdoor place of assembly and public gathering events.

Place of Assembly Safety Personnel: Fire Guards

Place of Assembly Safety Personnel are needed in certain indoor and outdoor places of assembly to manage the occupants in the event of a fire or other emergency. Safety personnel verify that the exits are unobstructed, immediately accessible, appropriately identified and suitably protected. They manage occupants by moving them away from the hasard.

It is the safety personnels job to ensure that occupants know where the exits are, and when and how to use them. Without guidance from on site fire safety personnel most occupants of places of assembly are likely to exit the same way they entered the building whether or not that is the safest or nearest exit.

Assembly occupancies are required to have a Fire Safety and Evacuation Plan. That plan must consider the number and capabilities of building occupants;

the type, location and arrangement of building exits; the fire and its effects on people and the building

the number, training and capability of staff to direct or perform fire evacuation or incipient fire fighting duties. Of particular concern is the occupants lack of familiarity with the building design: lighting conditions in assembly spaces may interfere with the occupants ability to discern the path of egress to travel.

Safety personnel should direct occupants to the nearest exit.

Safety Personnel are required in premises where the Certificate of Occupancy indicates that 75 or more members of the public may gather indoors or 200 or more may gather outdoors.

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