I had to look that up as I had never heard of it. I guess I am fortunate that our building is only 2 stories, so if we had to jump out of the windows in the break room, the worst we'd suffer is broken bones. But I think the company would fail an inspection miserably. For example, on the ground floor, the perimeter of the building is a fire escape route. There's not supposed to be anything within a couple of feet of the walls, so if a fire breaks out, and you can't see, you can follow the wall to reach a door. But there's CONSTANTLY stuff up against the wall...I even mentioned it once and was told there was nothing they could do about it, because there was no where else to put that stuff. And if you were upstairs, you'd be lucky to find the stairwell in a fire. They do prop the doors open now, which is actually against fire code, because they are big heavy fire doors meant to keep a fire from spreading, but when it gets so hot in the summer, keeping those doors closed just locks in the heat even more. A few years ago, they had a thermometer upstairs and in a heat wave, it was 111 degrees up there. And it's not just fire hazards...someone sprained a rib a couple of years ago because there was a zip tie on the floor that her foot caught in and she fell straight forward. I swear sometimes that I'm the only one who knows how to empty a trash can and put plastic in the plastic recycle containers...there's always trash all over the floor. I've slipped on these little plastic sheets that go between the thumb and fingers of mittens/gloves....they fall out, and people don't pick them up, and they can lie there for weeks, and you step on one, and it slides. There are places where the floor is so ripped up that there are potholes in the main path and you trip over that, or slide on the rubble. I can't have my phone on the work floor...I should sneak it in sometime and take pictures. It's really not a safe place to work. Between the violations of escape routes, lack of knowledge of escape routes (I've worked there for over 10 years, and this is the first year I've ever experienced a fire drill and I had no idea where I was supposed to go, so I just followed everyon else....turns out they were wrong. Even the managers didn't know where the nearest exit was...I asked if we shouldn't have taken this one door....the manager was like...."Oh...yeah....I guess that IS the closest one." ), to just the slipping hazards, tripping hazards, things that fall on you, boxes too heavy that they want you to lift over your head...if they were inspected, they'd be shut down.
