Integrating Human Factors Issues into Engineered Fire Safety Design

摘要

Engineered fire safety design requires considerably more knowledge in a broader spectrum of areas than traditional regulation-based or prescriptive-based fire safety design. In some areas, the required knowledge and expertise may not exist in the fire safety engineering community, and will have to come from specialists outside the profession. One such area is understanding and accounting for human response in fire situations. As perscriptive-based fire safety design does not require detailed consideration of the human/fire interaction, most fire safety engineers are ill equipped to address this consideration in engineered fire safety design.