- Author
- Sekizawa, A.
- Title
- Fire Risk Analysis: Its Validity and Potential for Application in Fire Safety.
- Coporate
- Tokyo Univ., Japan
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Eighth (8th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 18-23, 2005, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Beijing, China, Gottuk, D. T.; Lattimer, B. Y., Editors, 82-100 p., 2005
- Keywords
- fire research | fire safety | fire science | fire risk | risk analysis | risk assessment | fire statistics | human factors engineering | fire fatalities | residential building | building fires | scenarios | safety | disasters | death | escape means | smoke detectors | home fires
- Identifiers
- performance based design; taxonomic view on arena of "Fire Risk Analysis"; elements related to scenario-based Fire Risk Analysis; residential fire fatalities per 100,000 people by age group in Japan; impact of human factors on escape activity; physical characteristics of fatalities at a fire by type of occupancy; fire fatality rates by major fire cause and by type of homes and age group; reasons for fire death by type of physical condition at a time of fire; fatal fire incidence by condition of installation/activation of fire alarm system