- Author
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Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards)
- Title
- Fire: Human Action and Reaction.
- Journal
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Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards),
Vol. 57,
No. 11,
270-271,
November 1973
- Keywords
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human response
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human behavior
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human beings
- Abstract
- Is human behavior to some extent responsible for all fire mishaps involving an individual? Ms. Laura Buchbinder from the Cotton Foundation, currently a research associate with the Bureau's Fire Technology Division, is testing that hypothesis on case histories researched by the NBS Flammable Fabrics Accidents Case and Testing System. She has discovered a link between certain activity patterns related to age and sex and the incidence of fire accidents.