EXITS
GENERAL
12. Exits shall be provided from rooms, podiums,
terraces, platforms, contained open spaces or other areas
intended for occupancy in or in connection with a hotel
to a public thoroughfare or to an approved open space which
has access to a public thoroughfare.
OCCUPANT LOAD
13. (1) The occupant load of a floor area for an
occupancy referred to in Column 1 of Table 2 shall not exceed
one person per unit of floor area shown in Column 2 of Table
2 opposite that occupancy, unless otherwise approved.
(2) The occupant load of a floor area may vary
if it is used for different occupancies at different times,
but the exits from the floor area shall provide the number
of units of exit width prescribed by section 18 for the
greatest occupant load.
(3) Despite subsection (1), where exits from a
floor area in a hotel existing on the 1st day of September,
1971 provide less than one-half unit of exit width for every
thirty persons of the occupant load determined under Table
2, the occupant load of the floor area shall not exceed
thirty persons for every one-half unit of exit width actually
provided.
NUMBER OF EXITS
14. (1) Every floor area in a hotel shall be provided
with at least two independent well-separated exits unless,
(a) the floor area is intended for
use as a place of assembly, its occupant load does not exceed
sixty persons and the distance of travel to an exit from
any point in the floor area does not exceed 15m;
(b) the floor area is intended for
storage and does not exceed 200m2 and the distance
of travel to an exit from any point in the floor area does
not exceed 23m; or
(c) the floor area is intended for
a use other than those described in clauses (a) and (b)
and does not exceed 100m2 or have an occupant
load greater than sixty persons.
(2) Every place of assembly in a hotel shall be
provided with at least,
(a) three independent well-separated
exits, where its occupant load is 600 persons or more; and
(b) four independent well-separated
exits, where its occupant load is 1,000 persons or more.
(3) Where a room or floor area is divided into
individual places of assembly for licensing or other purposes,
(a) by a partition or partitions not
more than 1.35m in height; or
(b) by a partition or partitions more
than 1.35m in height, but having sufficient open area suitable
for egress,
and each place of assembly has at least one independent
exit, egress through an adjacent place or places of assembly
to an exit is permitted.
LOCATION OF EXITS
15. (1) Exits from a room or floor area, basement
or storey shall be well-separated by distance.
(2) Despite subsection (1), in hotels of noncombustible
construction, two stairways that are not well-separated
by distance or two contiguous stairways are permitted as
separate exits from a basement or storey if,
(a) any common fire separation between
two such stairways,
(i) is a two hour fire
separation,
(ii) is constructed to
prevent any possibility of smoke or fire passing from one
stairway to another, and
(iii) has no doorways,
duct pipe, conduit or other openings; and
(b) where the hotel is constructed
after the 1st day of September, 1971,
(i) the stairways are separated
from the hotel by a two hour fire separation,
(ii) each basement and
storey served by both stairways is divided by a 3/4-hour
fire separation so that an exit is located on each side
of the separation, and
(iii) no point in the basement
or storey is more than 30m in travel distance from an exit.
16. In a hotel or an addition to a hotel constructed
after the 1st day of September, 1971 the travel distance
from at least one exit of a room or other floor area along
a corridor to a basement or storey exit shall not exceed
30m unless otherwise approved.
17. (1) In a hotel or an addition to a hotel constructed
after the 1st day of September, 1971, dead-end corridors
shall not be longer than 6m plus the width of the corridor,
unless otherwise approved.
(2) Despite subsection (1), unless otherwise approved,
no floor area may be served by a dead-end corridor where,
(a) the floor area is intended for
use as a place of assembly and its occupant load is greater
than sixty persons;
(b) the floor area is intended for
storage and exceeds 200m2; or
(c) the floor area,
(i) is intended for a use
other than those described in clauses (a) and (b), and
(ii) exceeds 100m2
or has an occupant load greater than sixty persons.
WIDTH OF EXITS
18. (1) Exits from a place of assembly or other
floor area in a hotel shall provide one-half unit of exit
width for every thirty persons of occupant load, unless
otherwise approved.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the occupant
load of a suite or room occupied individually is two persons.
19. Where two or more exits are required from a
place of assembly or other floor area in a hotel a sufficient
number of units of exit width shall be provided so that
the required number of units is not reduced by more than
half if any one exit becomes inaccessible in an emergency.
20. The minimum number of units of exit width required
from a place of assembly or other floor area in a hotel
shall be provided in the exits leading from the place of
assembly or other floor area to the exterior.
21. Exits in a hotel, unless otherwise approved,
shall have a minimum clear width of not less than,
(a) 914mm in areas with an occupant
load of more than fifty persons;
(b) 914mm in stairways, including interior
and exterior doorways, steps and landings;
(c) 1.1m in corridors; and
(d) 750mm in all other cases.
HEIGHT OF EXITS
22. Exits in a hotel or an addition to a hotel
constructed after the 1st day of September, 1971 shall have
a head room clearance of at least,
(a) 2130mm in a corridor;
(b) 2030mm in a doorway; and
(c) 2060mm, measured vertically above
any landing or the nosing of any stair tread, in stairways.
OBSTRUCTIONS TO EXIT
23. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), nothing
shall project into or be fixed within the required width
of an exit in a hotel or an addition to a hotel constructed
after the 1st day of September, 1971.
(2) Handrails may project up to 90mm into the required
width on each side.
(3) Swinging doors in their swing may reduce the
required width of stairways or landings to a width not less
than 750mm.
24. (1) Exits in a hotel or an addition to a hotel
constructed after the 1st day of September, 1971 shall be
constructed so that,
(a) no door opens immediately onto
a flight of stairs but opens onto a landing at least as
long and as wide as the width of the door; and
(b) every exterior exit door opens
directly onto a landing.
(2) Despite clause (1)(b), where there is danger
of obstruction by ice and snow, the landing may be installed
up to 150mm below the elevation of the bottom of an exterior
exit door.
25. Exit doors to exit stairway enclosures, exterior
exit doors from stairway enclosures, exit doors from places
of assembly, exit doors from corridors used by the public
and exit doors from rooms having an occupant load of sixty
or more persons shall open in the direction of egress.
STAIRWAYS
26. In stairways in or connecting to a hotel or
an addition to a hotel constructed after the 1st day of
September, 1971,
(a) landings shall be at least as long
and as wide as the width of the stairs in which they occur
except that in a straight run, the length of a landing is
not required to exceed 1.1m;
(b) stairs shall have a wall or a well-secured
balustrade or guard on each side;
(c) stairs shall have a handrail on
one side, and when 1.1m or more in width shall have a handrail
on both sides;
(d) every stair balustrade or guard
shall be at least 800mm in height, measured vertically above
the nosing of the tread, and at least 1m in height measured
vertically above the surface of a landing or platform;
(e) risers of steps shall be at least
125mm and not more than 200mm high, treads of steps shall
be at least 230mm wide, exclusive of nosing, and all treads
less than 250mm in width shall have a nosing of approximately
25mm over the tread or landing immediately below, unless
otherwise approved;
(f) steps shall have a uniform rise
and run in any one flight, and shall not alter appreciably
in rise and run in successive flights; and
(g) treads of winders or winding steps
used in a stairway shall be at least 230mm wide, measured
230mm away from the handrail at the narrow end of the tread,
unless otherwise approved.
27. (1) Exterior stairways or fire escapes shall
not extend more than one storey above the first storey in
a hotel or an addition to a hotel constructed after the
1st day of September, 1971 unless otherwise approved.
(2) In exterior stairways or fire escapes in a
hotel existing on the 1st day of September, 1971,
(a) the stair shall not be inclined
at an angle of more than 45 degrees from the horizontal;
(b) risers of steps shall not exceed
220mm in height and treads of steps shall be at least 220mm
in width, exclusive of nosing;
(c) head room clearance shall be at
least 1.9m, plus the height of one riser, measured vertically
above the nosing of any tread or above a platform or landing;
(d) any balconies onto which doors
open shall have a clear area of at least 1.2m2;
(e) the open side of every platform,
landing balcony and stairway shall be protected by substantial
balustrades or guards at least 800mm measured vertically
above the nosing of any tread and at least 914mm in height
measured vertically above a landing or platform;
(f) the staircase shall be at least
550mm wide; and
(g) where the stairway or fire escape
is more than 550mm in width, there shall be a handrail on
the wall side.
(3) The bottom flight of an exterior stairway may
be counter-balanced, if,
(a) it is held in the up position without
a latch or locking device;
(b) it is fitted with a counter-balancing
device that keeps the bottom flight in the up position by
a weight permanently fastened to an extension of the stair
stringers that will allow it to be brought into position
for use easily and quickly;
(c) it has a bronze bushing for every
pivot and one or more bronze plates separating all movable
contacting steel surfaces of the stair; and
(d) it reaches the ground in the down
position.
EXIT SIGNS
28. (1) Exit signs shall be installed in a hotel
to indicate,
(a) exits from places of assembly with
occupant load greater than sixty persons;
(b) exit stairways and fire escapes;
and
(c) exits from exit stairway enclosures
and corridors to the exterior.
(2) All exit signs in a hotel shall show the word
"EXIT" in plain legible block letters that are,
(a) internally illuminated at all times
where power is provided by Ontario Hydro, a public utility,
a municipal corporation or the hydro-electric commission
of a municipality;
(b) coloured red on an opaque or contrasting
field; and
(c) at least 114mm high with a 19mm
stroke.
(3) Doors on exit stairways shall be marked on
both sides indicating the floor level in plain legible block
letters or numbers at least 114mm high with a 19mm stroke.
LIGHTING OF EXITS
29.(1) Every exit and corridor providing access
to an exit shall be equipped to provide illumination to
an average level of at least 50 lx at floor level and at
all points such as angles and intersections at changes of
level where there are stairs and ramps.
(2) Places of assembly with an occupant load over
60 persons, corridors and exits in hotels required to have
a fire alarm system shall be provided with emergency lighting
to average levels of at least 10 lx at floor or tread level.
(3) An emergency power supply shall be provided
to maintain the emergency lighting required in subsection
(2) from a power source such as batteries or a generator
that will continue to supply power if the regular power
supply to the building is interrupted, and shall be so designed
and installed that upon failure of the regular power supply
it will assume the electrical load automatically for a period
of,
(a) two hours for all high-rise hotels;
and
(b) 1/2-hour for all other hotel buildings
required to have emergency lighting, unless otherwise approved.
EXIT DOOR HARDWARE
30. (1) Every exit door of a suite and of a sleeping
room occupied individually shall open readily for exit purposes
without the use of a key.
(2) Every door that serves as an exit from any
floor area or part of a floor area with an occupant load
of more than sixty persons shall be equipped with panic
type hardware.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), the occupant
load of a suite or room occupied individually is two persons.
(4) Every exit door shall be designed and installed
so that when the latch is released, the door will open readily
for exit purposes without the use of a key.
(5) In a high-rise hotel there shall be a door,
unlocked at all times, leading from every exit stairway
into the floor area of every floor above grade.
HOLD-OPEN DEVICES
31. (1) A fire door in a kitchen separation and
a fire door or a smoke door in a corridor may be held open
by a hold-open device.
(2) A fire door to a lobby or other entrance area
that is within the stairway separation may be held open
with a hold-open device provided the stairway is separated
from the entrance area by at least a 3/4-hour fire separation.
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