Osha Door Opening Requirements

Department of labor occupational safety and health administration s osha s.

Osha door opening requirements.

Exit doors are required in businesses and osha requires that you as a business owner comply with certain regulations regarding those exit doors to ensure the safety of yourself and your employees in the event of a fire or other hazardous situation. The occupational safety and health administration is the agency charged with enforcing workplace safety regulations. An opening into an exit must be protected by a self closing fire door that remains closed or automatically closes in an emergency upon the sounding of a fire alarm or employee alarm system. Manual doors doorways and gates that are designed to be operated only by security personnel such as guards in a jail or prison are exempt from requirements for hardware closing speed and opening force but must meet all other requirements including those for maneuvering clearance.

Responding is maree mulvoy president m r products inc home of mr. Individual states have strict requirements of their own that. High speed door operation has the. 1910 36 d 2 electronic door opening device used with a security system.

The osha standard requires that a physical barrier guard every wall opening that poses a drop of greater than 4 feet. Loading docks can be dangerous. 06 10 1981 1910 36 g exit route stairways that comply with the codes of the nfpa and the ifc 06 20 2018. Each fire door including its frame and hardware must be listed or approved by a nationally recognized testing laboratory.

Each exit route door must be free of decorations or signs that obscure the visibility of the exit route door. Each fire door including its frame and hardware must be listed or approved by a nationally recognized testing laboratory. Don t assume osha is your only concern. About 25 percent of all reported warehouse injuries occur on loading docks and for each incident hundreds of near misses occur 1 causes of dock injury include truck separation from the dock and falls from the dock particularly when a forklift backs off the.

An opening into an exit must be protected by a self closing fire door that remains closed or automatically closes in an emergency upon the sounding of a fire alarm or employee alarm system. 1910 37 b 4 if the direction of travel to the exit or exit discharge is not immediately apparent signs must be posted along the exit access indicating the direction of travel to the nearest exit and exit discharge. When dock doors are open it s sometimes necessary to install a guardrail or a loading dock fall protection barrier. Box 556 candler nc 28715 dear mr.

Thank you for your december 18 2001 letter to the u s.