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Author
Buchbinder, B.
Title
System for Assessing the Long-Range Impact of Firesafety Policy and Management Decisions.
Coporate
National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
Symposium-Workshop Report 5,
Book or Conf
National Academy of Sciences. New Approaches to Evaluating Firesafety in Buildings. Symposium-Workshop Report 5. September 20-21, 1978, Washington, DC, 25-38 p., 1980
Keywords
fire safety | management | fire hazards | decision analysis
Identifiers
fire scenarios
Abstract
The mission of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Program for Information and Hazard Analysis is to characterize fire hazards. As part of long-range NBS planning, we have developed a way of defining scenarios representing specific fire problems, based on all available fire data and expert judgment. Figure 1 presents the most important fire scenario from the viewpoint of life safety.