- Author
- Grace, T.
- Title
- Improving the Waking Effectiveness of Fire Alarms in Residential Areas.
- Coporate
- Fire Engineering Consultant, Wellington, New Zealand
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 1st. Proceedings. August 31-September 2, 1998, Textflow Ltd., Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Shields, J., Editors, 243-252 p., 1998
- Keywords
- human behavior | performance based codes | fire safety | residential buildings | wakefulness | fire alarm systems | occupants | sleep | human response | motivation | fire statistics
- Identifiers
- sleep characteristics; sleep patterns; sleep pattern for young adults; alarm characteristics; smoke detector frequencies; response to auditory alarms; discrimination responses; motivational responses; identification of fire cues; fire fatalities by time of day