- Author
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Purser, D.
- Title
- Human Tenability.
- Coporate
- Building Research Establishment, Garston, England
- Book or Conf
- Technical Basis for Performance Based Fire Regulations. A Discussion of Capabilities, Needs and Benefits of Fire Safety Engineering. United Engineering Foundation Conference. Proceedings. United Engineering Foundation, Inc. January 7-11, 2001,
United Engineering Foundation, Inc., New York, NY,
San Diego, CA,
Cox, G., Editors,
88-126 p.,
2001
- Keywords
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regulations
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fire safety
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safety engineering
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human beings
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life safety
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tenability limits
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uncertainty
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psychological effects
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exposure
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physiological effects
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people movement
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visibility
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smoke
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optical density
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escape means
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respiratory system
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irritants
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hydrogen chlorode
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emergency plans
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asphyxia
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carbon monoxide
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incapacitation
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hazard analysis
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ventilation
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flashover
- Identifiers
- Fire Safety Engineering (FSE); necessity of using indirect methods for the development of tenability assessment methods; variable endpoints and interactions of complex mixtures; range of sensitivities in human populations; overall position with regard to uncertainty; psychological effects of exposure to heat and fire effluent; combined psychological and physiological effects of exposure to smoke and heat; reported effects of smoke on visibility and behaviour; estimated sensitivity distribution for human population to HCL exposure; irritant concentrations of common fire gases; emergency response Planning Guidelines for common fire irritants; lethal exposure doses of irritants contributing to asphyxia and lung damage; limiting conditions for tenability caused by heat; allowance for margins of safety and variations in susceptibility of human populations; relationship between fire types, fire scenarios and tenability