Crowd control and event barriers
Events and lobbies need lines people follow without thinking about them. These guides cover bike-rack style barriers for crowds and stanchions for queues, with the counts, weights and fire code limits that matter.
Barriers and stanchions
- Crowd control barriers
Steel vs plastic, lengths, feet, exit rules and a counter.
- Rope and stanchion
Rope vs belt, post types, spacing, queue width and a counter.
The rules behind these guides
- NFPA 101 Life Safety Code
- exits and exit access must stay open and marked; barriers can't block them
- 2010 ADA Standards
- accessible routes, clear widths and cane-detectable edges where a line forms a path
Other topics
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