['Emergency Planning - OSHA']
['Emergency Exits']
03/12/2025
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At 1910.36(g)(2) OSHA states that “an exit access must be at least 28 inches (71.1 cm) wide at all points.” [emphasis added]
OSHA defines an exit access as “that portion of an exit route that leads to an exit.” This would include aisles, doorways, hallways, ramps, passageways, etc. that may be used to get to an exit.
OSHA further addresses this issue in several Letters of Interpretation (LOI). In the first, dated April 27, 2000, an employer asks whether or not the minimum width of any way of exit access must be at least 28 inches in width. OSHA response is ‘yes’. Also, in a November 15, 1993 LOI in which a company asks whether the width of a doorway that is 27 5/8 inches wide is in compliance with the above requirement, OSHA’s response is that: “... the deficit of 3/8 inch (0.9 cm) in width would be considered a de minimis violation having no adverse impact on the safety and health of employees.”
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