Downtown Minneapolis is famously stitched together by roughly nine and a half miles of enclosed skyways linking towers, so an evacuation question that is simple elsewhere, where do people go, gets more complicated here. Add major corporate headquarters, healthcare systems, finance, and food-processing operations, and the metro's building mix is unusually varied.
Minnesota operates its own state OSHA program, MNOSHA, so Minneapolis employers follow MNOSHA standards, including emergency-action-plan requirements, with the Minneapolis Fire Department enforcing local fire codes. The skyway network means routes and assembly points have to be planned across connected buildings, not just one.
The dominant local factor is extreme cold: sub-zero winter temperatures make a standard outdoor assembly point genuinely dangerous. From your floor plan, OSHAMap generates a posting-ready evacuation map with exits, routes, and assembly points already placed, for a skyway-connected tower or a processing plant in minutes.