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Safety passage distance requirements for seating sides of large auditoriums

Apr 24,2024

Safe passage distance requirements for the side of seats in large auditoriums include the following:

1. The evacuation passage and safety exit shall be kept unblocked, and it is forbidden to stack goods, lock the exit and set up obstacles.

2. Safety exits and evacuation doors such as commercial business halls, audience halls, and auditoriums shall not set thresholds or other obstacles that affect evacuation, and steps shall not be set within 1.4 meters inside and outside the door.

3. When arranging evacuation walkways, the number of rows of seats between the cross walkways should not exceed 20 rows; The number of seats between the aisles: theater, cinema, auditorium, etc., each row should not exceed 22; Gymnasium, no more than 26 in each row.

4. The total net width of evacuation walkways, evacuation stairs, evacuation doors and safety exits of theaters, cinemas, auditoriums and other places shall comply with the regulations.
5. Large auditoriums should be equipped with fixed seats with backrest, and small box seats should not exceed 12 active seats. Short row method: the hard chair should not be less than 0.80m, the soft chair should not be less than 0.90m, the terrace ground row distance should be appropriately increased, and the horizontal distance between the chair back and the most prominent part of the back row should not be less than 0.30m.

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