CHANGES IN THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ENSURING SAFE EVACUATION OF PEOPLE

The report analyses the requirements for ensuring safe evacuation of people from buildings, arising from the latest amendment to Ordinance No. Iz-1971 on construction and technical rules and norms for fire safety in the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as their consequences. The regulatory requirements determining the length of the evacuation route – both within a room and to the final evacuation exit – are examined. The normative requirements for the permissible evacuation time from rooms and buildings are presented, along with two calculation methods for determining the evacuation time from a building.