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SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire

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This single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event.

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
The prediction of human behavior during a fire emergency is one of the most challenging areas of fire protection engineering. Yet, understanding and considering human factors is essential to designing effective evacuation systems, ensuring safety during a fire and related emergency events, and accurately reconstructing a fire.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
1908002284	EB0002998	628.922 Soc s	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

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Series Title

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Call Number

628.922 Soc s

Publisher

Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2018

Collation

xiv, 159p.:Ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-94697-9

Classification

628.922

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

2

Subject(s)

Buildings--Evacuation

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Statement of Responsibility

BRF

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