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    No.

    2007-9 February 27, 2007

    U.S. Fire Administration / National Fire Academy

    Coffee Break Training


    Topic: Secured Assembly Seating
    Learning objective: The student shall be able to determine when secured seating is required
    in a place of public assembly.

    The accompanying picture illustrates a common public seating arrangement


    in a large place of assembly without fixed seats.

    If all these loose seats were occupied and an emergency occurred, the
    potential is high that escaping persons would scatter chairs in their haste to
    leave, thereby creating obstructions to smooth and timely egress.

    To minimize the likelihood that seats will be disturbed and disrupt egress
    paths, the model fire codes require that in places of public assembly without
    ramped or tiered floors and with more than 200 seats, the chairs should be
    secured together in groups of at least three or they should be secured to the
    floor. The NFPA codes do not require that more than seven chairs be bonded
    to one another.

    Securing the seats together is intended to make it less likely chairs will be
    scattered, and more likely that occupants will follow the defined egress
    patterns.

    The joined or bonded seats must be installed with aisles and cross aisles
    leading to exits in accordance with the codes. The dimensions for these
    aisles, and the required distance between the front of one seat and the back
    of another, depend upon the number of seats and whether occupants have
    two means of access to the aisles.

    Seating diagrams with minimum aisle widths are an important


    adjunct to permits for places of public assembly. All potential
    configurations should be submitted to the code official for
    review and approval prior to issuing the assembly permit.

    For additional information, refer to International Fire Code®,


    Chapter 10; NFPA 1, Uniform Fire Code™, Chapter 20; or NFPA
    101™, Life Safety Code®, Chapters 12 and 13.

    Egress For archived downloads, go to: www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/coffee-break/

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