- Author
- Purser, D.
- Title
- Human Tenability.
- Coporate
- Building Research Establishment, Garston, England
- Book or Conf
- Technical Basis for Performance Based Fire Regulations. A Discussion of Capabilities, Needs and Benefits of Fire Safety Engineering. United Engineering Foundation Conference. Proceedings. United Engineering Foundation, Inc. January 7-11, 2001, United Engineering Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, San Diego, CA, Cox, G., Editors, 88-126 p., 2001
- Keywords
- regulations | fire safety | safety engineering | human beings | life safety | tenability limits | uncertainty | psychological effects | exposure | physiological effects | people movement | visibility | smoke | optical density | escape means | respiratory system | irritants | hydrogen chlorode | emergency plans | asphyxia | carbon monoxide | incapacitation | hazard analysis | ventilation | flashover
- Identifiers
- Fire Safety Engineering (FSE); necessity of using indirect methods for the development of tenability assessment methods; variable endpoints and interactions of complex mixtures; range of sensitivities in human populations; overall position with regard to uncertainty; psychological effects of exposure to heat and fire effluent; combined psychological and physiological effects of exposure to smoke and heat; reported effects of smoke on visibility and behaviour; estimated sensitivity distribution for human population to HCL exposure; irritant concentrations of common fire gases; emergency response Planning Guidelines for common fire irritants; lethal exposure doses of irritants contributing to asphyxia and lung damage; limiting conditions for tenability caused by heat; allowance for margins of safety and variations in susceptibility of human populations; relationship between fire types, fire scenarios and tenability