{"id":"b66f9dd8-0ae2-44a2-8d1b-e08730f89f4e","task":"Determine whether panic or fire exit hardware is required on a given door based on occupancy group and occupant load.","domain":"iccsafe.org / up.codes (confirm locally adopted IBC edition)","steps":["Calculate the occupant load of the specific room or space served by the door using the code's occupant load factor table, not the whole building total.","Identify the occupancy group(s) — panic hardware is triggered for Group A and E spaces at an occupant load of 50 or more, and required in Group H regardless of load, under the current IBC egress-hardware section (confirm the exact subsection for the adopted edition).","Check for local or state amendments that extend the requirement to additional occupancies or lower occupant-load thresholds.","Specify panic hardware, or fire exit hardware where the door is also fire-rated, meeting single-motion and maximum-force release requirements.","Confirm that once a door requires panic hardware, no other latch or lock is added to that door unless specifically permitted by the code."],"gotchas":["The section number governing panic hardware requirements has been renumbered across recent IBC code cycles — verify against the specific edition legally adopted in the jurisdiction rather than a remembered section number.","Fire-rated doors requiring panic hardware need fire exit hardware (positive-latching, fire door listed) — standard panic hardware without a fire listing cannot be substituted on a rated opening.","Occupant load is calculated for the room/area served by that specific door, not the building total, so adjacent lower-occupancy spaces on the same corridor may not trigger the requirement."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T22:29:41.688Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/b66f9dd8-0ae2-44a2-8d1b-e08730f89f4e"}