There has been some talk lately about whether delayed egress locks are a good solution for preventing theft, due to concerns about the need for immediate egress in an active-shooter incident. I published a post last year about this question, and one of the viable solutions was to install “panic buttons” and train staff to use these buttons to release the delayed egress locks if an active shooter situation occurred.
Unfortunately, without a code-compliant way to deter theft (like a delayed egress lock), people will come up with their own “solutions.” The Wordless Wednesday photos below show one distribution facility’s alternative, which was likely adopted when the exit alarms did not adequately deter non-emergency use of the doors.
Thank you to Kerry Heminger of Commercial Door Metal Systems for the photos.
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Sad that we still see things like this. The only way to stop this is to inspect and shut down offenders. But we have to get inspectors that have the teeth to do it. They will learn in time. If this place had to send everyone home for 3 days and wait for a re inspection on the next Monday morning, they would never do it again.
Great, return of the coathanger wire (I am sure you remember my submission involving an LCN 4040 being held up with this), and now this? I see code violation all over this door!
I have seen this type of nonsense before during a Strike Lockout . . Rather than pay the price to rekey all exits /entrance doors they just disable them . Their reasons are simply stated the building is unoccupied. Wrong move but thousands get away with it every year