Sue Knott's Blog: Knott The Screaming Type - Posts Tagged "fire-codes"
I may be a safety nutcase, but safety makes sense
A bizarre title to an equally strange rant, but I just have to go off topic a bit and express my disgust with the public's idiocy regarding safety matters.
Why oh why do the manufacturers of children's outerwear not incorporate reflective strips as a matter of course? There should be a law requiring reflective strips! These things would add less cost than pockets (most kids' jackets have pockets and kids have no need of them) and they save lives. Get a clue manufacturers! The running shoe industry is way ahead of you, putting reflective strips on adult running shoes (kudos, shoe industry). I don't have a small child, but I drive a car and I appreciate the reflective strips on those hard-to-see pedestrians. (They should put them on adult outerwear, too - so I'm not forced to wear my stupid safety vest when I walk at night.)
Second safety peeve: public buildings that don't unlock all their doors. How often do you go to enter a building only to find one of the main doors locked? If there were a fire, crowds of people would be running to exit the building, only to be thwarted by a locked door: people pile up, get crushed and are obstructed from exiting a burning building. While newer stores, have safety bars that allow egress even when the door is locked from the outside, a ridiculous number of public buildings have no such devices. Fire marshalls should get on top of this. It must surely be against fire regulations to have public buildings that cannot accommodate exiting individuals from every door. Let's start enforcing that rule and fining offenders.
And that is the end of my rant. Two cheap, easy fixes that could save lives.
Why oh why do the manufacturers of children's outerwear not incorporate reflective strips as a matter of course? There should be a law requiring reflective strips! These things would add less cost than pockets (most kids' jackets have pockets and kids have no need of them) and they save lives. Get a clue manufacturers! The running shoe industry is way ahead of you, putting reflective strips on adult running shoes (kudos, shoe industry). I don't have a small child, but I drive a car and I appreciate the reflective strips on those hard-to-see pedestrians. (They should put them on adult outerwear, too - so I'm not forced to wear my stupid safety vest when I walk at night.)
Second safety peeve: public buildings that don't unlock all their doors. How often do you go to enter a building only to find one of the main doors locked? If there were a fire, crowds of people would be running to exit the building, only to be thwarted by a locked door: people pile up, get crushed and are obstructed from exiting a burning building. While newer stores, have safety bars that allow egress even when the door is locked from the outside, a ridiculous number of public buildings have no such devices. Fire marshalls should get on top of this. It must surely be against fire regulations to have public buildings that cannot accommodate exiting individuals from every door. Let's start enforcing that rule and fining offenders.
And that is the end of my rant. Two cheap, easy fixes that could save lives.
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