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d. Travel distance shall be measured in accordance with Section
10.2.5.2 of this IRR.
e. The travel distances in para (2) (a) and (b) above may be
increased by fifteen meters (15 m) in buildings completely
equipped with an automatic fire suppression system.
3. Every health care sleeping room, unless it has a door opening at
ground level, shall have an exit access door leading directly to a
corridor which leads to an exit. One adjacent room such as a sitting or
anteroom may intervene if all doors along the path of exit travel are
equipped with non-lockable hardware, and this intervening room is
not intended to serve more than eight (8) health care sleeping beds.
However, special nursing suites or nurseries permitted in this Division
shall not be limited to eight (8) cribs or bassinets.
4. Aisles, corridors and ramps required for exit access of exit in hospitals or
nursing homes shall be at least two hundred forty four (244) centime-
ters in clear and unobstructed width. Aisles, corridors and ramps
required for exit access or exit in a residential-custodial care institution
shall be at least one hundred eighty three centimeters (183 cm) in
clear and unobstructed width. Corridors and ramps in adjunct areas
not intended for the housing, treatment, or use of inpatients, shall be at
least one hundred eighty three centimeters (183 cm) in clear and
unobstructed width.
5. Any rooms and any suite or rooms of more than ninety three square
meters (93 m 2 ) shall have at least two (2) exit access doors remote
from each other.
6. Every exit or exit access shall be so arranged that no corridor or aisle
has a pocket or dead-end exceeding six meters (6 m).
7. Any health care sleeping room which complies with the requirements
previously set forth in this section may be subdivided with non fire-
rated, non-combustible partitions, provided, that the arrangement
allows for direct and constant visual supervision by nursing personnel.
Rooms which are so subdivided shall not exceed four hundred sixty five
square meters (465 m 2 ).
D. Doors
1. Doors shall be in accordance with Section 10.2.5.3, except as modified
in this subsection. For door requirements in horizontal exits and smoke
partitions, see Section 10.2.5.6, Section 10.2.6.Error! Reference source
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2. Locks shall not be permitted on patient sleeping room doors.
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