- Author
- Kamath, A. R. R. | Keller, A. Z. | Selman, A. C.
- Title
- Fire Alarm Maintenance in Health Service Industries.
- Coporate
- Bradford Univ., UK Department of Health and Social Security, London, England
- Book or Conf
- Advances in Reliability Technology Symposium, 7th. 1982, 2C/2-14 p., 1982
- Keywords
- hospitals | statistical analysis | fire alarm systems | maintenance | tests
- Abstract
- Data collected from 55 hospitals in the north of England is analysed using non parametric statistics. Factors such as fase alarms, time spent on testing/maintenance are identified and investigated. Various statisitcal models are employed to examine the fire alarm incident rates and annual false alarm rate predictions made.