Technical Booklet E Fire Safety·Page 25
Definition: Final Exit
A final exit is the point where an escape route terminates and gives direct access to a street, passageway, walkway or open space, allowing rapid dispersal from danger; windows are not acceptable as final exits.
Final exit – the termination of an escape route from a building giving direct access to a street, passageway, walkway or open space, and sited to ensure the rapid dispersal of people from the vicinity of a building so that they are no longer in danger from fire or smoke or both. (A window is not acceptable as a final exit.)
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