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Occupant Behavior in Building Fires
The increasing prominence of high rise buildings having many occupants intensifies the need for better information about the behavior of occupants during fire emergencies. Fire researchers have indicated that it is often not feasible to evacuate buildings because of time constraints. Instead, designers use techniques such as safe areas within buildings and requiring people to respond differentially, based on their particular location. This approach emphasizes communications and warning systems to transmit messages. These systems such as loud noises or blinking lights should be designed to take advantage of the usual responses made by people. Occupants can actively be a part of the fire warning and fighting system instead of being unwilling victims. This possibility is pursued and a human factors approach is taken to suggest some means of better understanding the capabilities of occupants.
Occupant Behavior in Building Fires
The increasing prominence of high rise buildings having many occupants intensifies the need for better information about the behavior of occupants during fire emergencies. Fire researchers have indicated that it is often not feasible to evacuate buildings because of time constraints. Instead, designers use techniques such as safe areas within buildings and requiring people to respond differentially, based on their particular location. This approach emphasizes communications and warning systems to transmit messages. These systems such as loud noises or blinking lights should be designed to take advantage of the usual responses made by people. Occupants can actively be a part of the fire warning and fighting system instead of being unwilling victims. This possibility is pursued and a human factors approach is taken to suggest some means of better understanding the capabilities of occupants.
Occupant Behavior in Building Fires
A. I. Rubin (author) / A. Cohen (author)
1974
30 pages
Report
No indication
English
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