Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Revising Recommendations for Evacuating Individuals with Functional Limitations from the Built Environment
Background: The rate of disability is rising in Canada as many individuals are now experiencing functional limitations due to aging, joining those with injuries and permanent or temporary impairments. In emergency situations, these individuals as well as first responders are at an increased risk of injury due to evacuation guidelines in Canada being out of date and not based on best available evidence. The Canadian evacuation guidelines were published in 2002, highlighting the immediate need to revise egressibility standards for individuals with functional limitations.
Objective: The objective of this project is to summarize the best available evidence on solutions for evacuating individuals with functional limitations from the built environment.
Methods: We will perform a scoping review to identify current solutions used to evacuate this population. The literature search will be structured around three concepts: functional limitation, evacuation, and built environment.
Results: Two-dimensional matrices will be created – the first to list solutions appropriate for existing buildings and the second to list solutions appropriate for new buildings. Each matrix will list building types across one axis and individual functional limitations along the other axis, with each cell containing a list of possible evacuation solutions for a given building type and individual with a specific limitation.
Conclusions: Results will inform the public on current evacuation protocols for individuals with functional limitations and highlight areas for improvement regarding safe egressibility. The outputs of this project will also provide a comprehensive toolkit useful for improving protocols for evacuating this population from the built environment.
Revising Recommendations for Evacuating Individuals with Functional Limitations from the Built Environment
Background: The rate of disability is rising in Canada as many individuals are now experiencing functional limitations due to aging, joining those with injuries and permanent or temporary impairments. In emergency situations, these individuals as well as first responders are at an increased risk of injury due to evacuation guidelines in Canada being out of date and not based on best available evidence. The Canadian evacuation guidelines were published in 2002, highlighting the immediate need to revise egressibility standards for individuals with functional limitations.
Objective: The objective of this project is to summarize the best available evidence on solutions for evacuating individuals with functional limitations from the built environment.
Methods: We will perform a scoping review to identify current solutions used to evacuate this population. The literature search will be structured around three concepts: functional limitation, evacuation, and built environment.
Results: Two-dimensional matrices will be created – the first to list solutions appropriate for existing buildings and the second to list solutions appropriate for new buildings. Each matrix will list building types across one axis and individual functional limitations along the other axis, with each cell containing a list of possible evacuation solutions for a given building type and individual with a specific limitation.
Conclusions: Results will inform the public on current evacuation protocols for individuals with functional limitations and highlight areas for improvement regarding safe egressibility. The outputs of this project will also provide a comprehensive toolkit useful for improving protocols for evacuating this population from the built environment.
Revising Recommendations for Evacuating Individuals with Functional Limitations from the Built Environment
Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.
Black, Nancy L. (Herausgeber:in) / Neumann, W. Patrick (Herausgeber:in) / Noy, Ian (Herausgeber:in) / Sharma, Yashoda (Autor:in) / Sajid, Waqas (Autor:in) / Marquez-Chin, Cesar (Autor:in) / Roberts, Brad W. R. (Autor:in) / Al Bochi, Abdulrahman (Autor:in) / Pong, Steven (Autor:in) / Weiler, Mark (Autor:in)
Congress of the International Ergonomics Association ; 2021
Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) ; Kapitel: 44 ; 350-356
05.05.2021
7 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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