Pre-Event Safety Inspections Flashcards

During a pre-event inspection, you find an exit door chained shut with a padlock. What is the FIRST action you must take?

Answer: Immediately notify management and require the chain be removed before guests enter

A locked exit is an immediate life-safety hazard that must be corrected before any occupants are admitted to the space.

During a pre-event walk-through, you find extra chairs placed in a required aisle. What action must the fireguard take?

Answer: Remove the chairs and restore the required aisle width before the event opens

Aisles must maintain their required minimum widths at all times to serve as safe evacuation pathways.

What must a fireguard verify about exit signs during a pre-event inspection?

Answer: Exit signs must be illuminated by both primary power and emergency backup power

Exit signs must remain illuminated by both primary and emergency power to ensure visibility if the main power fails.

Stage equipment has been moved during setup and now partially blocks an exit corridor. Who has authority to require it be moved before the event?

Answer: The fireguard on duty

The fireguard has authority and responsibility to require removal of any obstruction from exit pathways before or during an event.

How many means of egress are generally required from a place of assembly, and how must they be positioned?

Answer: At least two, located as remote from each other as possible

Fire code requires at least two exits positioned remotely from each other so a single fire cannot block all escape routes simultaneously.

During a pre-event inspection, you find that one required exit door swings inward into the assembly space instead of outward. What should you do?

Answer: Report the code violation to management and the FDNY as required by code

Exit doors from places of assembly must swing in the direction of egress travel; an inward-swinging door is a fire code violation requiring reporting.

During a pre-event inspection, egress corridor lighting appears inadequate. What is the minimum illumination level required at floor level along a means of egress?

Answer: 1 foot-candle

Fire and building codes require a minimum of 1 foot-candle of illumination at floor level along the path of egress.