Door Swing and Direction of Egress

In places of assembly of over 50 persons, the doors must open in the “direction of [egress] travel.”


In the image above, both doors open into the exit corridor. Figure A is on the left, B is on the right.

Both figures open towards the corridor, but which one follows the requirement? Does it only need to open into the adjacent corridor? Is an evacuation plan utilizing fig. B allowed?

Got an answer from Robert:

I don’t think it’s just if a place of assembly has over 50 occupants. I think that it is any place that has any amount of occupants in it even if it is just one. My belief about that comes from 16 years ago when I was in 6th grade, the fire evacuation route had to change because it didn’t comply with the door opening towards the direction that everybody went. Originally the route was to go through the multi-purpose room and out that exit but because the doors to get into there opened outward the fire marshal said it violated the code and the route was changed.