Emergency escape signs are designed to guide you from wherever you are in a building, via a place of relative safety (the escape route ) to the place of ultimate safety (the assembly area). Fire assembly points should be far enough away from the building to avoid interference with the fire brigade and danger from falling debris caused by the fire. Providing clear and visible signage will help ensure all evacuees know where to gather in the event of a fire / fire drill.

Assembly points must be easily accessible and have an unobstructed patheway leading to them. Larger sites may require multiple assembly points that are identified with allocated numbers / letters.