Panic exit doors
An exit door is designed for the worst moment: a crowd moving quickly, in poor light, towards a door none of them has ever used. The hardware answers that by demanding no knowledge and no key — a horizontal bar across the leaf releases the latch under the pressure of a body. It opens in the direction people are already travelling, and it must never be lockable against them from the inside.
- push bar release
- outward opening
- single or double leaves
What escape hardware has to guarantee
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Push to open
Release
Body pressure alone frees the latch
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Escape direction
Swing
Leaf opens the way people are moving
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No key inside
Locking
Never securable against the escape route
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Alarmed
Option
A sounder flags casual use of the exit
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Outside access
Optional
Keyed or coded entry from the other face
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Specifying an exit door
- Escape route walked with the fire strategy Engineer attends within 48 hours
- Bar type chosen for the expected crowd A touch bar, or a compact push pad
- Interaction with access control resolved Security must never defeat escape
- Fire rating confirmed where the route is protected Some exits are fire doors as well
- Made as one complete set, hardware included Three to five weeks from approval
- Installed and demonstrated in use Released by one push, every single time
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The honest downside
When a panic exit door is the wrong entrance
A panic exit door is designed to let people out, not in. It opens outward, releases with one push from inside and must never be lockable against the escape route, so as a main entrance used both ways it needs an outside access device, and every visitor arrives by pulling a leaf towards them.
The outward swing needs space beyond: a leaf opening onto a narrow corridor or a pavement can strike somebody walking past. And the hardware looks like what it is — a push bar reads as a back-of-house door, rarely what a reception wants to show.
Where one entrance carries steady two-way traffic and also sits on the escape route, an automatic door with break-out leaves can often serve both, if the fire strategy accepts it. A panic exit door remains the right choice for dedicated exits, stair doors and staff routes, where the only job is to open instantly under pressure.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, and the two are not in conflict as long as the security works only from outside. The bar always releases from within; the outer face can carry a keyed or coded access device, and the door can be alarmed so casual use is noticed. What is never acceptable is a bolt or a chain that stops the bar doing its job.
It matters once numbers of people are involved. A bar running the full width of the leaf can be reached by anyone arriving at any part of the door, which is exactly what a route serving a crowd needs. A push pad is compact, tidier and perfectly adequate on a back door used only by staff.
Only where the route it serves is a protected one, and that is set out in the building's fire strategy rather than decided door by door. Where both apply, the escape hardware has to belong to the door's certified set — the two are specified together, never bolted together afterwards.
That is precisely what an alarmed exit device is for. The bar still opens the door instantly, but opening it sets off a local sounder and, where the door is monitored, registers at the panel. Shortcut traffic tends to disappear as soon as it becomes audible.
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