Who puts the 'safety' into fire safety engineering?

摘要

Without doubt, fire safety engineering has a part to play in today's fire protection armoury. This is so, particularly where the building is perhaps too complex, the design too challenging, or the structure too innovative for application of the time-tested guidelines outlined in Approved Document B. As a scientifically based discipline, however, fire safety engineering has to face up to some important questions in establishing its credibility.