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Singular resource for the fire safety community offers sound understanding of human behavior during emergencies
Consensus-based resource developed from the work of the leading researchers throughout the world
Identifies both quantitative and qualitative information that constitutes important considerations prior to developing safety factors, exercising engineering judgment, and using evacuation models in the practical design of buildings and evacuation procedures
Thoroughly updated and expanded, this Second Edition includes new information on:
Incapacitating Effects of Fire Effluent & Toxicity Analysis Methods
Occupant Behavioral Scenarios
Movement Models and Behavioral Models
Egress Model Selection, Verification, and Validation
Estimation of Uncertainty and Use of Safety Factors
Enhancing Human Response to Emergency Notification and Messaging
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Human Behavior in Fires
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Fire Situation Management
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Back Matter
About this book
The Second Edition of SFPE's Engineering Guide: Human Behavior in Fire provides a common introduction to this field for the broad fire safety community: fire protection engineers/fire safety engineers, human behavior scientists/researchers, design professionals, and code authorities. The public benefits from consistent understanding of the factors that influence the responses and behaviors of people when threatened by fire and the application of reliable methodologies to evaluate and estimate human response in buildings and structures.
This Guide also aims to lessen the uncertainties in the "people components" of fire safety and allow for more refined analysis with less reliance on arbitrary safety factors. As with fire science in general, our knowledge of human behavior in fire is growing, but is still characterized by uncertainties that are traceable to both limitation in the science and unfamiliarity by the user communities. The concepts for development of evacuation scenarios for performance-based designs and the technical methods to estimate evacuation response are reviewed with consideration to the limitation and uncertainty of the methods. This Guide identifies both quantitative and qualitative information that constitutes important consideration prior to developing safety factors, exercising engineering judgment, and using evacuation models in the practical design of buildings and evacuation procedures. Besides updating material in the First Edition, this revision includes new information on:
- Incapacitating Effects of Fire Effluent & Toxicity Analysis Methods
- Occupant Behavior Scnearios
- Movement Models and Behavioral Models
- Egress Model Selection, Verification, and Validation Estimation of Uncertainty and Use of Safety Factors
- Enhancing Human Response to Emergencies & Notification of Messaging
Authors and Affiliations
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Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Gaithersburg, USA
Society of Fire Protection Engineers
About the author
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) is the professional society representing those practicing the field of fire protection engineering. The Society has over 4,600 members and 92 chapters, including 17 student chapters worldwide.
The purpose of SFPE is to advance the science and practice of fire protection engineering and its allied fields, to maintain a high ethical standard among its members and to foster fire protection engineering education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire
Authors: Society of Fire Protection Engineers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94697-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Society of Fire Protection Engineers 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94696-2Published: 27 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94697-9Published: 14 November 2018
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 159
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Building Construction and Design, Behavioral Sciences