- Author
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Proulx, G.
- Title
- Why Building Occupants Ignore Fire Alarms.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Journal
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Construction Technology Update,
No. 42,
1-4,
December 2000
- Distribution
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- Keywords
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fire alarm systems
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occupants
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human behavior
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false alarms
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failure
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signals
- Identifiers
- objectives of a fire alarm system; why do occupants fail to react?