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Good evening, recently passed my nebosh and need a little help.
We have a building that sits approx 120 people. Near the wall the chairs are pushed up against the wall so there is no walkway down one side as there is not enough space for a 1m walkway.
We have a special occasion coming up and the powers that be want to pull the chairs approx 50cm away from the walls.
This could encourage visitors to use these walkways as an exit path should an emergency arise.
Can this be allowed for a special occasion or is there legislation against this
Thanks in advance
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I don't see any problem with chairs being 50 cm from the wall instead of up against it.
Or indeed with people squeezing through this gap if they feel like it, on the basis that there is a wider route that they can easily choose.
The only bad scenario I see is that they may put their bags and cups of tea in the gap and these could be tripped over if people did squeeze through.
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Hi Paul Your first post here, so welcome to the Forums. To be honest I can't even get bothered about the potential for bags and cups of tea being placed in the gap behind the chairs. If faced with an easy route from A to exit at B who is going to choose a 500mm wide space behind chairs instead - particularly in the heat of the moment?
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My mental picture was of the sides of the chairs at the far end of each row being close to the side wall, whereas I think Peter's is that the backs of the chairs in the back row are close to the back wall.
So we may be thinking about it differently.
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Coincidentally I am at a conference at the moment. This is at an educational institution that routinely hosts such events in the holidays. The lecture room is laid out with rows of chairs with an aisle about 1 metre wide through the middle. At the walls to each side there is a gap of about 0.5 metre. At the end of the lecture some people did indeed leave by squeezing through the gap. This did not appear to cause any problems whatsoever. Admittedly no bags or cups of tea were brought in.
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