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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is that a thing?

  Feels like something door closer makes irrelevant.

  You’d think fire could would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I imagine it’s because bathrooms have no point of egress, so the ability to block the bathroom door from the outside (intentionally or not) needs to be avoided at all costs.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Makes sense.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        yay critical thinking!

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Assuming the bathroom is in a hallway, having the door open into the hallway would cause the flight path to be narrowed which would be against (some) fire code(s).

    After all, significantly more people would want to flee through the hallway than out of a room adjacent to the hallway.

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If they opened outward, they’d block egress in the hallway, which would have equal or more traffick than any single room connected and will enough people in the hallway, you wouldn’t be able to open the door to escape at all.

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  • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For small spaces with limited occupancy, you can get away with opening into the room. Main exits are push, unless it opens onto a public sidewalk and not a stoop or something.

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