New ISO Standard For Fire Safety Design of Built Environments will Help Save Lives and Cut Costs

摘要

A new ISO standard for fire safety engineering should help to save lives, reduce costs due, to fire damage and bring substantial economic savings through improved fire safety design. ISO 23932 : 2009, Fire safety engineering - General principles, provides general principles for a performance-based methodology for engineers to assess the level of fire safety for new or existing built environments.Fire safety is evaluated through an approach based on risk assessment and on knowledge of the behaviour of fire and of people and the consequences of such behaviour on human safety, property and the environment.