Venue Readiness · ADA Title III · NFPA Assembly

A packed house has to clear.
Including the fans who can't take the stairs.

Stadiums, arenas, theaters, and convention centers are assembly occupancies — the strictest egress class there is, because you're moving thousands out fast. Your accessible-seating patrons are part of that count. Outpost gives you the chairs, the slings, the trained crews, and the documentation to get everyone out — and prove it.

What you answer to

Assembly occupancy is the highest bar in the code — and accessible egress is part of it.

ADA Title III · 28 CFR 36
Accessible seating — and a way out of it

Stadiums, arenas, and theaters are public accommodations. The ADA requires accessible seating and an accessible means of egress for the patrons who use it — not just a way in.

NFPA 101 · Assembly Occupancy
The code's strictest egress class

Assembly occupancies carry the highest life-safety scrutiny in the Life Safety Code — exit capacity, main-exit sizing, and a plan for occupants who can't self-evacuate.

IBC §1009 · Areas of Refuge
From accessible seating to the exit

Accessible means of egress and areas of refuge from every accessible seating level, with two-way communication — the path a mobility-impaired patron actually takes out.

Why it matters — the history that wrote the codes

Every assembly disaster that rewrote the rules has the same shape: too many people, not enough way out.

Cocoanut Grove
1942 · Boston
A packed house, and no way out

A crowded nightclub with locked and revolving-door exits trapped the crowd inside. It rewrote the nation's exit-capacity and occupant-load codes.

Beverly Hills Supper Club
1977 · Southgate, KY
Too many people, too few exits

An overcrowded assembly hall couldn't move the crowd it held. It drove modern assembly-occupancy, exit, and sprinkler requirements.

The Station
2003 · West Warwick, RI
Everyone to one main exit

Stage pyrotechnics ignited the room and the crowd funneled to a single main exit. It reshaped assembly egress, sprinkler, and occupant-load enforcement.

It isn't just history. Venues now clear tens of thousands on short notice — a 50,000-seat NFL stadium was fully evacuated for lightning in about half an hour, and weather and security evacuations happen every season. Your accessible-seating patrons are part of every one of those counts — and as audiences age, more of them can't take the stairs.
What readiness looks like

When you evacuate a full house, the patrons in accessible seating are part of the count — and elevators and platform lifts lock out in a fire. A HALO chair staged at each accessible-seating level, and a ProMove sling to reach a patron who can't self-transfer, is how you clear everyone. That readiness is the entire reason Outpost exists.

Framed as egress-failure — the lessons behind modern assembly-occupancy and exit codes. We do not tie these events to specific victims.

What we deploy

Equipment, training, and proof — built around your event calendar.

  • HALO evacuation chairs
    Staged at each accessible-seating level and area of refuge — ready the moment the elevators and lifts lock out.
  • ProMove transfer slings
    So event staff can move a patron who can't self-transfer into the chair, safely and with dignity, without lifting.
  • Event-staff training
    Your ushers and event crew practice with the real equipment on your actual concourses and vomitories.
  • Outpost Go-Bag & SunCase
    Staged at the command post: light, tools, and backup power that keeps a Power chair and comms running through an outage.
  • Drills built around events
    Documented drills timed to your event calendar that keep the capability real, not theoretical.
  • 12-month audit log
    The binder an ADA reviewer, fire marshal, or insurer asks for — dates, names, serials, signatures.
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The obligation, the highlights, and a stairwell-readiness checklist — on one page you can forward to your team. We'll email it now.

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Coverage Designer · Venue Readiness

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Set your building, pick your chairs, and watch three tiers of coverage price themselves.

Live estimate

Assembly occupancies must clear accessible-seating patrons too — a chair at each accessible level is the baseline.

How many accessible-seating levels?
2
How many seating levels?
3
What best fits your stairs & passengers?
Add to the plan?
Your build
2 accessible-seating levels × 3 seating levels · HALO Swift
Your three tiers of coverage
Baseline
2chairs
HALO Swift
HALO Swift
One chair per stairwell — the compliance baseline.
★ Recommended
Recommended
4chairs
HALO Swift
HALO Swift
Adds coverage on your upper floors so no one waits long.
Full
6chairs
HALO Swift
HALO Swift
A chair on every floor of every stairwell — nobody waits.
We'll email your numbered estimate in seconds — no call required.

Estimate only — final counts confirmed on your walkthrough. Chairs & slings are quoted; Go-Bags and SunCase are priced online.

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