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Table 13: HAZARDOUS AREA OPERATION
HAZARDOUS AREA DESCRIPTION SEPARATION/PROTECTION
Areas not incidental to resident housing
Boiler and fuel-fired heater rooms
Central or bulk laundries > 9.3 m 2
Commercial cooking equipment
Commissaries
Employee locker rooms
Hobby/handicraft shops
Maintenance shops
Padded cells
Soiled linen rooms
Storage rooms >4.6 m 2 in area but 9.3 m 2 in
area storing combustible material
Storage rooms >9.3 m 2 storing combustible
materials
Trash collection rooms 2 hours
1 hour
1 hour
In accordance with 3.601
Smoke resistant
Smoke resistant
Smoke resistant
Smoke resistant
1 hour
1 hour
Smoke resistant
1 hour
1 hour
Doors used to access the areas specified above shall meet the
requirements for doors at smoke barriers for the applicable use
condition.
2. Where smoke barriers are required, they shall limit the occupant load
to not more than 200 residents in any smoke compartment and limit
the travel distance to a door in a smoke barrier as follows:
a. The distance from any room door required as exit access shall not
exceed forty five meters (45 m).
b. The distance from any point in a room shall not exceed sixty meters
(60 m).
3. Any required smoke barrier shall be constructed in accordance with
Section 10.2.6.9. Barriers shall be of substantial construction and shall
have structural fire resistance.
4. Openings in smoke barriers shall be protected in accordance with
Section 10.2.6.9 of this IRR, provided, that, there shall be no restriction
on the total number of vision panels in any barrier. Provided, further,
that sliding doors in smoke barriers that are designed to normally be
kept closed and are remotely operated from a continuously attended
location shall not be required to be self-closing.
5. Not less than fifty six hundredths square meters (0.56 m 2 ) of net area
per occupant shall be provided on each side of the smoke barrier for
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