Correctly, But Not Safe: On Questionable Prescriptive Method of Assessing Building Fire Safety – An Exemplary Case Study

2013 ◽  
pp. 383-388
Author(s):  
Paweł A. Król ◽  
Krzysztof Łącki
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Building Fire

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Legal Framework for Building Fire Safety Regulations in Spain

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Amaya Osácar ◽  
Juan Bautista Echeverria Trueba ◽  
Brian Meacham
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Ideal

There is a trend in Europe towards increasing the quality and performance of regulations. At the same time, regulatory failure has been observed in the area of building fire safety regulation in England and elsewhere. As a result, an analysis of the appropriateness of fire safety regulations in Spain is warranted, with the objective being to assess whether a suitable level of fire safety is currently being delivered. Three basic elements must be considered in such analysis: the legal and regulatory framework, the level of fire risk/safety of buildings that is expected and the level which actually results, and a suitable method of analysis. The focus of this paper is creating a legal and regulatory framework, in particular with respect to fire safety in buildings. Components of an ”ideal” building regulatory framework to adequately control fire risk are presented, the existing building regulatory framework is summarized, and an analysis of the gaps between the ideal and the existing systems is presented. It is concluded that the gaps between the ideal and the existing framework are significant, and that the current fire safety regulations are not appropriate for assuring delivery of the intended level of fire risk mitigation.

How Do People with Disabilities Consider Fire Safety and Evacuation Possibilities in Historical Buildings?—A Swedish Case Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kecklund Lena ◽  
Andrée Kristin ◽  
Bengtson Staffan ◽  
Willander Sara ◽  
Siré Elena
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Historical Buildings

scholarly journals Evacuation Data from a Hospital Outpatient Drill The Case Study of North Shore Hospital

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anass Rahouti ◽  
Ruggiero Lovreglio ◽  
Phil Jackson ◽  
Sélim Datoussaïd
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Movement Time ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact

Assessing the fire safety of buildings is fundamental to reduce the impact of this threat on their occupants. Such an assessment can be done by combining existing models and existing knowledge on how occupants behave during fires. Although many studies have been carried out for several types of built environment, only few of those investigate healthcare facilities and hospitals. In this study, we present a new behavioural data-set for hospital evacuations. The data was collected from the North Shore Hospital in Auckland (NZ) during an unannounced drill carried out in May 2017. This drill was recorded using CCTV and those videos are analysed to generate new evacuation model inputs for hospital scenarios. We collected pre-movement times, exit choices and total evacuation times for each evacuee. Moreover, we estimated pre-movement time distributions for both staff members and patients. Finally, we qualitatively investigated the evacuee actions of patients and staff members to study their interaction during the drill. The results show that participants were often independent from staff actions with a majority able to make their own decision.

SCHEMA-SI: A hybrid fire safety engineering tool Part II: Case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 58-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Muller ◽  
F. Demouge ◽  
M. Jeguirim ◽  
Ph. Fromy
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Safety Engineering ◽  
Fire Safety Engineering

scholarly journals A PILOT CASE STUDY OF A PERFORMANCE-BASED FIRE SAFETY DESIGN METHOD TO A MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 138-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kawori KOYA ◽  
Yoshifumi OHMIYA ◽  
Kazunori HARADA ◽  
Takeyoshi TANAKA ◽  
Akihiko HOKUGO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Office Building ◽  
Safety Design ◽  
Fire Safety Design ◽  
A Performance

scholarly journals Bridging the divide between fire safety research and fighting fire safely: how do we convey research innovation to contribute more effectively to wildland firefighter safety?

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore 'Ted' Adams ◽  
Bret W. Butler ◽  
Sara Brown ◽  
Vita Wright ◽  
Anne Black
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
Media Richness ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Safety Zone ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Firefighter Safety ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
Getting Lost

Creating a safe workplace for wildland firefighters has long been at the centre of discussion for researchers and practitioners. The goal of wildland fire safety research has been to protect operational firefighters, yet its contributions often fall short of potential because much is getting lost in the translation of peer-reviewed results to potential and intended users. When information that could enhance safety is not adopted by individuals, the potential to improve safety – to decipher the wildland fire physical or social environment and to recognise hazards – is lost. We use firefighter safety-zone research as a case study to examine how primary research is, and could be, transferred to fire managers, policy-makers and firefighters. We apply four core communication theories (diffusion, translation, discourse and media richness) to improve knowledge transfer.

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