- Author
- Cooper, L. Y. | Nelson, H. E.
- Title
- Life Safety Through Designed Safe Egress--A Framework for Research, Development and Implementation.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources. Fire Research and Safety. 6th Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR Proceedings. May 10-14, 1982., Building Research Inst., Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo/Tsukuba, Japan, 764-795 p., 1983
- Keywords
- life safety | building fires | egress | occupants
- Identifiers
- safety egress time
- Abstract
- For fires in buildings, the ability of occupants to safety egress from all threatened spaces is equivalent in a condition of life safety. The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical formaulation of the life safety problem based on the application of this equivalence principle, and to formulate a compatible framework for research, develoment and implentation.