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Quantitative risk assessment in fire safety
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Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a ""Responsible ...
Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a ""Responsible Person"" and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements specified in the regulations.Although regulations only require a qualitative assessment of fire risk, a quantitative assessment is an essential first step for performing cost-benefit analysis of alternative fire strategies to comply with the regulations and selecting the most cost-e
Details
- Creator
- Ganapathy Ramachandran and David Charters
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Spon Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- ISBNs
- 113581838X, 1283241501, 1135818398, 9786613241504, 0203937694, 0419207902
- OCLC
- ocn768164636, ocn785783566
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Qualitative and semi-quantitative risk assessment techniques -- 3. Quantitative risk assessment techniques -- 4. Acceptance criteria -- 5. Initiation -- 6. Design fire size -- 7. Fire spread beyond room of origin -- 8. Performance and reliability of detection, alarm and suppression -- 9. Performance and reliability of human response and evacuation -- 10. Performance and effectiveness of fire service intervention -- 11. Whole project analysis -- 12. Interactions -- 13. Combining data from various sources : Bayesian techniques