Travel Distance

• More than one direction of escape?
• Type of risk - high, normal, low?
• Sleeping area?
• Production area?
• Residential care?
• People with disabilities?

When assessing the available means of escape from a building, it is necessary to take into account the distance that occupants will have to walk before reaching a final exit. The distance considered acceptable will very in accordance with a number of factors, but maximum 'travel distances' have been developed and refind over many years and published in a wide range of government approved fire safety guides.