- Author
- Gann, R. G.
- Title
- On the Use of Bench-Scale Smoke Toxicity Data in Fire Hazard and Risk Assessment.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Volume 2
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2004. (Interflam '04). International Interflam Conference, 10th Proceedings. Volume 2. July 5-7, 2004. Organised by Interscience Communications Ltd. in association with National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Research Establishment; National Fire Protection Association; Society of Fire Protection Engineers; and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1421-1429 p., 2004
- Keywords
- fire science | fire safety | fire hazard | risk assessment | smoke | toxicity | safety engineering | incapacitation | cone calorimeters
- Identifiers
- assessment of the tenability by occupants of a building in the event of a fire; sources of toxic potency data; real-scale data for the different stages of fires; characteristics of fire stages; data from bench-scale devices; estimated values for lethability and incapacitation; methodology for comparing the results and estimating the accuracy of the bench-scale data
- Abstract
- Fire safety engineering of facilities increasingly includes some degree of assessment of the tenability by occupants of a building in the event of a fife. These assessments include estimates of the time available for people to escape a burning facility or find safe refuge within. Today's fire safety professionals use diverse and ad hoc approaches to make these assessments because: * There is no standard protocol for estimating the time available for escape. * There is no agreement on which toxicological effect(s) to base the estimation of time available for escape. * There is no widely accepted methodology of known accuracy for generating the smoke toxic potency data needed to implement the estimation.