点评:I was amazed when Experimental Group management announced in an email that they would now lock exits from the Spa BEFORE closing time. They specifically mentioned the two metal gates.
There are only 3 exits from the semi-underground Spa complex so if you are locking the two gates before closing time you are significantly reducing the number of emergency exits down to just 1 exit in the event of a fire or other emergency.
Fire regulations talk of the need for multiple fire exits so as not to cause choke points in the rush to leave.
I regularly saw hotel guests and spa visitors walk up to the metal gates, beyond the gym in a dark corner, only to find they were already locked and they would ask me as I swam how they could leave the spa!
Over the next year or so I watched as they regularly locked the official signed fire exit from the gym and the two metal gates often as much as 90 minutes BEFORE closing time. This happened when numerous hotel guests, spa users and staff were still on site.
This left as much as one hour and a half with only 1 exit if there had been a fire or other emergency.
On some occasions Experimental Group would in addition to locking the green signed fire exit from the gym, also draw a curtain across the only other gym door and turn the lights off.
When Experimental Group purchased the new flat-pack wooden loungers with foam filled cushions they would stack a large number of these foam filled cushions just inside the gym on the route to the fire exit. If this large pile of foam cushions (sometimes up to 2m high) had caught fire I believe there may have been a lot of very unpleasant smoke from them.
翻译:当实验集团管理层在一封电子邮件中宣布,他们现在将在关门前锁上水疗中心的出口时,我感到十分惊讶。他们特别提到了两道金属门。
半地下水疗中心只有三个出口,所以如果在关门前锁上两道门,一旦发生火灾或其他紧急情况,紧急出口的数量将大大减少到只有一个。
消防法规提到需要设置多个消防出口,以免在匆忙离开时造成拥堵。
我经常看到酒店客人和水疗中心的顾客走到健身房外黑暗角落的金属门前,却发现门已经被锁上了。他们会在我游泳时问我,怎么才能离开水疗中心!
在接下来的一年左右的时间里,我看到他们经常在关门前90分钟就锁上健身房官方签名的消防出口和两道金属门。这种情况经常发生在许多酒店客人、水疗中心的顾客和工作人员还在现场的时候。
如果发生火灾或其他紧急情况,那么长达一个半小时的时间里,只有一个出口。
有时,实验组除了锁上健身房的绿色消防出口外,还会拉上另一扇门的窗帘,关掉灯。
实验组购买新的平板包装木质躺椅和泡沫填充坐垫后,会在健身房内通往消防出口的路上堆放大量泡沫填充坐垫。如果这一大堆泡沫坐垫(有时高达2米)着火,我相信它们可能会产生大量令人不快的浓烟。