Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs › Bureau of Community and Health Systems › Homes for the Aged Facilities › Children's and Adult Foster Care Camps › Part 2 - FIRE SAFETY › Section R. 400.11211 - Means of egress

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 211.
(1)
					 Required means of egress shall be maintained in an unobstructed, easily
					 traveled condition at all times and shall lead to free and safe ground remote
					 from the building. This includes any platform, steps, or ramps used for
					 permanent platform tents and any related guardrails and handrails. Campers
					 shall not be exposed to inherent hazards in a building, including, but not
					 limited to, the heating plant, commercial kitchen, flammable storage, or any
					 other hazards. Furniture, equipment, and utility materials shall not be stored
					 or maintained in a location or position in which they are likely to fall or be
					 pushed into, or be obstructive in any way to, the means of egress.
(2) A camp that serves campers who regularly
					 require wheelchairs shall be equip each building used by wheelchair campers
					 with ramps which have a handrail, guardrail, and wheel guard at any open sides
					 and which are located at all required exits. The slope of the ramp shall not be
					 more than 1 foot of rise in 12 feet of run. Ramps that have an overall rise of
					 6 inches or less do not require handrails. The required exits in buildings used
					 by campers who regularly require wheelchairs shall be a minimum of 36 inches
					 wide. These exits shall have side-hinged doors that swing in the direction of
					 egress and open onto a floor-level landing that is as deep as the swing of the
					 door or open directly at grade. A building that is currently licensed for
					 wheelchair campers may maintain its current exiting subject to approval
					 pursuant to
					 R
					 400.11203(b).
(3) Single-story new construction, additions,
					 conversions, renovations, or remodeling of a camp building, which has an
					 occupancy of 12 or fewer persons, shall have access to 2 properly separated
					 means of egress that are located as far apart as practical, but not less than a
					 distance that is 50% of the longest dimension of the building. One of the
					 required means of egress shall be an exit door as specified in
					 R
					 400.11213(1). The second means of
					 egress may be an escape window unless compliance with subrule (2) of this
					 subrule is required. Escape windows shall comply with all of the following
					 requirements:
(i) The window is side-hinged
					 and swings in the direction of egress.
(ii) The window has a minimum net clear
					 opening of 5 square feet.
(iii) The
					 window does not have an open dimension that is less than 22 inches.
(iv) The window is operable from the inside
					 with a single motion and is equipped with non-locking-against-egress hardware
					 that does not require the use of special tools to open.
(v) The sill height is not more than 36
					 inches from the floor, unless an approved substantial permanent ledge or
					 similar device that is not less than 12 inches wide is provided under the
					 window, in which case the sill height may be increased to 44 inches from the
					 floor.
(vi) The sill height to
					 grade is not more than 60 inches.
(vii) In an existing licensed camp building,
					 "escape window" means a window approved by the fire-inspecting
					 authority.