- Author
- Kennett, E. W.
- Coporate
- AIA Research Foundation, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Veterans Admin., Washington, DC Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC Department of Labor, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS GCR 82-383, March 1982,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NB80NADA1058
- Book or Conf
- Life Safety and the Handicapped, 1980 Conference. Final Report. October 26-20, 1980, Washington, DC, Kennett, E. W., Editors, 116 p., 1982
- Keywords
- building codes | building design | building fires | building management | egress | emergencies | escape | evacuation | fire alarm systems | fire departments | fire safety | handicapped | life safety | refuge
- Abstract
- Our society has made a conscious decision to integrate the handicapped into the "mainstream" of everyday life. Significant progress has been made toward making buildings accessible to the handicapped, but this very success brings a concomitant responsibility for dealing with the problem of protection and emergency exit. Simply stated, ingress implies egress. The 1980 Conference on Life Safety and the Handicapped was another step in an ongoing process of responsibly addressing this issue. The objectives were education, articulation, and formulation: education as to the overall existence of the issue, articulation of specific problems and needs, and formulation of a national agenda for how to address the issue. Toward the goal of formulating a National Agenda, a significant portion of the conference was devoted to a set of twelve workshops. Sixteen topic papers were presented during the conference. Seventeen consensus recommendations were produced in the final plenary session. The conference was produced by the National Task Force on Life Safety and the Handicapped and AIA Research Corporation; sponsored by the Veterans Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Department of Labor.