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Human Behaviour in Fires
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference
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Publication
date:
March 2001
Hardback, casesewn, 546 pages with 100 tables
and 160 illustrations,
ISBN 0 9 5 3 2312 67.
Price £95.00 incl
p+p
Over 56 papers aimed at fire safety researchers, fire
safety engineers, and other design professionals to facilitate
and improve fire safety design through better understanding
of human behaviour in fire.
Topics covered are: Human behaviour theory; Evacuation
modelling and functionality; Occupant response; Toxicity and
smoke effects; Visual accessibility and spatial analysis;
Human performance criteria for inclusion in regulations and
codes; Non-engineered solutions for reducing the incidence
and impact of fire and poster presentations. |
| HUMAN
BEHAVIOUR THEORY |
| Behavioural
safety: Extending the principles of applied behavioural
analysis to safety in fires in public buildings, Julian
Leslie, University of Ulster, UK |
| Primary
group size and fatality risk in a fire disaster, William
Feinberg, N Johnson, University of Cincinnati, USA |
| A
behavioural solution to the learned irrelevance of emergency
exit signage, Taz McClintock, TJ Shields, A Reinhardt-Rutland,
J Leslie, University of Ulster, UK |
| Factors
affecting the perception of risk and their impact on human
behaviour in fire, Brian Meacham, Arup Fire, USA |
| Advancing
human behaviour theory: Visual access and occupancy research,
modelling and applications, Jonathan Sime, Jonathan Sime
Associates, UK |
| EVACUATION
MODELLING & FUNCTIONALITY |
| Application
of the individual-based evacuation model ASERI in designing
safety concepts, Volker Schneider, Integrierte Sicherheits-Technik
GmbH, Germany |
| Verifying
the predictive capability of EXIT89, Rita Fahy, NFPA,
USA |
| Study
on feasibility of evacuation by elevators in a high-rise
building, Ai Sekizawa, National Research Institute of
Fire & Disaster, S Nakahama, Y Ikehata, Taisei Corporation,
M Ebihara, H Notake, Shimizu Corporation, Japan |
| Comparison
of model predictions and actual experience of occupant
response and evacuation in two highrise apartment building
fires, D Yung, G Proulx, N Benichou, NRC, Canada |
| Simulated
evacuations of an airport terminal building, using the
CRISP model, Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell, BRE/FSEC, UK |
| Simulating
occupant interaction with smoke using building EXODUS,
S Gwynne, E Galea, P Lawrence, L Filippidis, University
of Greenwich, UK |
| A
consideration of evacuation attributes and their functional
sensitivities, Gillian Livesey, I Taylor, H Donegan, University
of Ulster, UK |
| KEYNOTE
PAPER: Victims of fire? Predicting outcomes in residential
fires, Patricia Brennan, I Thomas, Victoria University,
Australia |
| OCCUPANCY
CHARACTERISATION
top |
| Evacuating
an overturned smoke filled rail carriage, Ed Galea, S
Gwynne, University of Greenwich, UK |
| Visibility
of four exit signs and two exit door markings in smoke
as gauged by twenty people, G Webber, M Wright, G Cook,
University of Reading, UK |
| Occupant
behaviour and response time – Results from evacuation
experiments, Håkan Frantzich, Lund University, Sweden |
| An
investigation on proportion and capabilities of disabled
people at shopping centers for fire safety, Akihiko Hokugo,
A Tsumura, Y Murosaki, Graduate School of Science and
Technology, Kobe University, Japan |
| Toward
creating a database on delay times to start evacuation
and walking speeds for use in evacuation modelling, Rita
Fahy, NFPA, USA and G Proulx, NRC, Canada |
| OCCUPANT
RESPONSE |
| On
the use of voice alarm systems, Tom Grace, Arup Fire,
Australia, Neil Woodger, Arup Acoustics, USA and P Olsson,
Arup Fire, Hong Kong |
| Analysis
of the number of occupants, detection times and pre-movement
times, David Charters, Arup Fire, P Holborn, South Bank
University, N Townsend, London Fire Brigade, UK |
| The
behaviour of young people in a fire at a dance party in
Gothenburg in 1998, Staffan Bengtson, Brandskyddslaget,
G Holmstedt, Lund University, L Kecklund, MTO Psychology,
H Lorin, MD, P Widlundh, Swedish Board of Accident Investigation,
Sweden |
| Highrise
evacuation: A questionable concept, Guylène Proulx,
NRC, Canada |
| Gender
differences in response to fires, Wendy Saunders, Victoria
University, Australia |
| Recognition
of fire cues during sleep, Dorothy Bruck, P Brennan, Victoria
University, Australia |
| TOXICITY
AND SMOKE EFFECTS |
| A
study to identify the incidence in the United Kingdom
of long-term sequelae following exposure to carbon monoxide,
Don Christian, University of Ulster, UK |
| Correlation
between physiological index and psychological index during
stressful fire experiments, Katsuaki Kubota, Fujita Corporation,
Y Murosaki, Kobe University, Japan |
| The
effects of smoke on people’s walking speeds using
overhead lighting and way guidance provision, G Webber,
M Wright, G Cook, University of Reading, UK |
| Sublethal
effects of smoke on survival and health, Richard Gann,
J Averill, K Butler, W Jones, G Mulholland, J Neviaser,
T Ohlemiller, R Peacock, P Reneke, NIST/BFRL, J Hall,
NFPA, USA |
| Assessment
of smoke atmospheres where loss of visibility is the limiting
hazard, Atle Heskestad, InterConsult Group, A Steen Hansen,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
| NON-ENGINEERED
SOLUTIONS FOR REDUCING THE INCIDENCE AND IMPACT OF FIRE |
| The
development of an education program effective in reducing
the fire deaths of preschool children, Sharon Gamache,
NFPA, Don Porth, E Diment, Portland Fire Bureau, USA |
| Predicting
evacuation response and fire fatalities, Patricia Brennan,
I Thomas, Victoria University, Australia |
| Towards
developing a picture of those most at risk of death by
fire, Brian Taylor, T Manifold, J Lodge, Nottinghamshire
Fire and Rescue Service, UK |
| Study
on the security staff’s action taken in the event
of a building fire, Manabu Ebihara, H Notake, Y Yashiro,
Shimizu Corporation, Japan |
| Emergency
evacuation of the gaming rooms of a large casino complex
– Occupant and management related issues, Rod Sinclair,
Crown Ltd, M Horasan, AGAL - Scientific Services Laboratory,
Australia |
| VISUAL
ACCESSIBILITY AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS |
| Training
for wayfinding: The comparative effects of landmark, route
and configuration instruction, Russell Kushigian, USA |
| A
possibility measure method for predicting wayfinding patterns
of evacuees under fire situations, Siu Ming Lo, KK Yuen,
City University of Hong Kong, J Lu, Z Fang, Wuhan University,
PR China |
| Evaluation
of egress complexity and its change by arrangement of
wayfinding guidance signs using random walk model, Yoshimura
Hidemasa, Osaka University, Japan |
| HUMAN
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION IN REGULATIONS AND
CODES |
Human
behaviour research – What information do the fire
safety engineers really need?
Mahmut Horasan, AGAL - Scientific Services Laboratory,
W Saunders, Victoria University of Technology, Australia |
| Visibility
as egress criteria: A review of the literature, Joseph
Fleming, Boston Fire Department, USA |
| Integrating
human behavior in fires into fire protection engineering
design, Morgan Hurley, Society of Fire Protection Engineers,
D O’Connor, Schirmer Engineering Corp, USA |
| Human
behaviour and risk based fire regulation, Vincent Brannigan,
C Smidts, University of Maryland, USA, A Kilpatrick, Glasgow
Caledonian University, UK |
| Promoting
performance through pro-active fire prevention regulation,
Mark Chubb, New Zealand Fire Service, New Zealand |
| An
investigation on the influence of the training background
of facility managers on fire safety maintenance in buildings,
Kwok Kit Yuen, Siu Ming Lo, City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong |
| POSTER
PRESENTATIONS |
| Evacuation
scenarios and performance-based regulations, Doug Beller,
NFPA, USA |
| Evacuation
safety for locomotion disabled people, Anna Brand, M Sörqvist,
P Håkansson, J E Johansson, Räddningstjänsten
Västra Blekinge, Sweden |
| Fire
safety for historical buildings and performance criteria
for their use, Luigi Coppola, Giulio Gecchele, Politecnico
di Torino, Italy |
| To
what extent can the factor of human behaviour be taken
into this equation to formulate an adequate fire safety
solution? Michael Eady, HM Fire Service Inspectorate,
UK |
| A
sensitivity analysis approach to improve evacuation performance
and to optimise staff/patient ratios in hospitals and
nursing homes, Mahmut Horasan, AGAL - Scientific Services
Laboratory, Australia |
| A
study of occupants’ behavior in industrial/commercial
fire incidents – Case study, Frank Hsu, Fire Cause
Analysis - IFT, USA |
| To
evacuate or not to evacuate: Which is the safer option?
Hamish MacLennan, Holmes Fire and Safety Ltd, New Zealand |
| Fire
deaths in Finland 1988-97, O Keski-Rahkonen, VTT Building
Technology, J Rahikainen, City of Helsinki Rescue Dept,
Finland |
| Real
fire data – The development of a human behaviour
in fire database based on non-experimental fires, Steven
Smith, NSW Fire Brigades, Australia |
Functional
importance of acuity and contrast sensitivity on locomotion
in the built environment
P Vivekananda-Schmidt, TJ Shields, A Reinhardt-Rutland,
R Anderson, University of Ulster, UK |
| Regional
characteristics of urban evacuation – About evacuating
pedestrian velocity, Pei-Chun Shao, Y Murosaki, Graduate
School Kobe University, Japan |
Technical
framework for fire safety that incorporates some characteristics
of human behaviour
E Marchant, Edinburgh Fire Consultants, A Copping, University
of Bath, UK |
| A
qualitative approach to children of developing countries
from human behaviour in fire aspect, Aydn Ozkaya, KarnaDesign,
Consultancy and Training Services Ltd, Turkey |
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