The Role of Value Judgements in Performance-Based Fire Safety

摘要

Societal values are essential for guiding fire-safety decision making. We want better rather than worse consequences, and better and worse are based on our val- ues. Fire-safety models lend some insight into complex situations, but in the end, their results must be evaluated within the value system of the entity they are try- ing to protect. Fire-safety decision making can be broken into two parts. The first relates to The available alternatives and their possible consequences, which describe the Degree to which objectives are achieved.