SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire, 2nd Edition
SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire, 2nd Edition 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.
SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire, 2nd Edition
- Front Matter
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- Introduction (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Integrating Human Behavior Factors into Design (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Front Matter
- Population Characteristics (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Occupant Behavior Concepts: Cues, Decisions and Actions (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Effects of Fire Effluent (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Front Matter
- Development and Selection of Occupant Behavioral Scenarios (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Calculation of Effects of Fire Effluent (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Physical Movement Concepts (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Egress Model Selection (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Egress Model Testing (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Estimation of Uncertainty and Safety Factors (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Front Matter
- Enhancing Human Response to Emergency Notification and Messaging (Society of Fire Protection
- Engineers)
- Managing the Movement of Building Occupants (Society of Fire Protection Engineers)
- Back Matter
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.
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