- Author
- Samochine, D. A. | Boyce, K. | Shields, J.
- Title
- Investigation Into Staff Behaviour in Unannounced Evacuations of Retail Stores: Implications for Training and Fire Safety Engineering.
- Coporate
- Academy of State Fire Service of Russia, Moscow FireSERT, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland
- 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, 519-530 p., 2005
- Keywords
- fire research | fire safety | fire science | human behavior | evacuation | shopping centers | training | safety engineering | occupants | emergencies | methodology | evacuation time | people movement | fire statistics | response time | human response
- Identifiers
- staff behaviour in five unannounced evacuations of Marks and Spencer retail stores; number of customers and evacuation times for each store; breakdown of staff captured on video by setting; descriptive statistics for staff pre-movement time; descriptive statistics of staff pre-movement time across the settings; first actions of staff in response to fire alarm; first actions of staff in response to the fire alarm by setting; staff travel speed