Houston's economy spans the Energy Corridor and the Ship Channel's petrochemical complex, the Texas Medical Center (the largest medical campus in the world), downtown towers, and a vast sprawl of low-rise offices and warehouses. Each setting carries a different evacuation profile, from process-unit hazards at a refinery to patient movement on a hospital campus.
Texas has no state OSHA plan, so Houston employers follow federal OSHA directly, including the 29 CFR 1910.38 Emergency Action Plan rule. Petrochemical and chemical facilities also fall under the Process Safety Management standard (29 CFR 1910.119), which ties evacuation routing to release scenarios, and the Houston Fire Department enforces local fire codes across the city.
The Gulf Coast adds hurricane and flooding risk on top of routine fire safety, as Hurricane Harvey made clear, and the flat, flood-prone terrain means a plan has to weigh evacuation against shelter-in-place. OSHAMap converts your floor plan into a posting-ready map of exits, routes, and assembly points, so an energy-corridor office and a Ship Channel facility each get a clear diagram in minutes.