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Human Behaviour in Fire Symposium 2004
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Publication Date:
September 2004
Perfect
Bound, 525pp with 93 tables and 169
illustrations.
Price £85.00
with CD ROM of all papers. The CD only is available at £40plus
VAT (17.5%)
ISBN
0 9541216 6 X
The
third international symposium took place in Belfast, Ulster,
UK. 44 papers were presented covering :
COMMUNITY
FIRE SAFETYCOMMUNITY
FIRE SAFETY
IMPACT
OF MAJOR FIRE EVENTS
CARE
OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
PHYSICAL AND OPERATIONAL SAFETY SYSTEMS
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| TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
Keynote
Paper on Policy, A tour d'horizon of government fire policy
and the role of fire research
Clive Norris, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK |
Keynote
Paper on Research Directions and strategies for research on
human behaviour and fire: Are we prepared to support decision-making
on the major themes?
John Hall Jnr, NFPA, USA |
Keynote
Paper on Technology Transfer Title to be announced
Ed Galea, University of Greenwich, UK |
Suggestions
on evacuation models and research questions
Jake Pauls, Consulting Services in Building Use and Safety,
USA |
| COMMUNITY
FIRE SAFETY |
Keynote Paper CDC’s activities to reduce home fires: Understanding
human behaviour
Mick Ballesteros, National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control, USA |
Occupants, ignition and fire outcomes
Ian Thomas and P Brennan, Victoria Univ Melbourne, Australia |
Fatalities in home fires where smoke alarms operated
Rita Fahy and J Molis, NFPA, USA |
The
MFB's human behaviour research
project
Rob Taylor and S Pepperdine, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Australia |
Towards a psychometric risk perception model of risk from domestic
fire hazards
Gary Bradley, Univ of Ulster, UK |
Neuro-behavioural
outcomes and incidence of trauma following domestic fires
Nigel McConnell, Univ of Ulster, UK |
Fire safety in densely-built wooden towns - the importance of
community involvement
Anne Steen Hansen, Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology,
T Steiro, K Pederson, SINTEF and G Jensen, Interconsult, Norway |
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NSW 201/02 Christmas Bushfires: Surveying affected communities
Robert Alexander and A Lear, NSW Fire Brigades, Australia |
A community fire disaster as a galvanizing and fragmenting event
Patricia Cohn and M Carroll, Washington State Univ, D Seesholtz,
USDA Forest Service and L Higgins, Univ of Idaho, USA |
Taking steps to improve community preparedness for Wildfire
- Lessons from communities in the US
Pamela Jakes, L Kruger, USDA Forest Service, M Monroe, Univ
of Florida, K Nelson, Univ of Minnesota, V Sturtevant, Southern
Oregon Univ, USA |
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Keynote Paper Lessons learned from 09/11: The Report of the
World Trade Centre Building Code Task Force
Patricia Lancaster, Commission NYC Building Department and Stanley
Dawe, Chief of Fire Prevention (retired), Fire Department of
New York, USA |
Investigating the evacuation of WTC building 1 using computer
simulation
Ed Galea, H Westang, S Blake, S Gwynne, P Lawrence, University
of Greenwich, UK
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An analysis of human behaviour during the WTC disaster of 9/11
based on published survivor accounts
S Blake, E Galea, H Westang, A Dixon, University of Greenwich,
UK |
Comparing journalism, conventional research and legal proceedings
as sources of insights into human behaviour in disasters in
buildings
Jake Pauls, Consulting Services in Building Use and Safety and
P Wearne, Consultant, USA |
Account analysis of WTC survivors
Guylene
Proulx, NRCC/ IRC, Canada and R Fahy, NFPA, USA |
Towards understanding human behaviour in fire in tunnels
Jim Shields, University of Ulster, UK |
Evacuation experiments in smoke filled tunnels
Daniel Nilsson and H Frantzich, University |
Assessment of fire safety design in tunnels based on emergency
response and standard operating procedures for tunnel fires
Shen-Wen Chien, T-S Shen, P-Y Tseng, L-T Fang, Y-H Huang, Y-C
Chien, C-C Chen, Central Police Univ, and K-H Hsiung, Fire Dept
Taipei City, Taiwan |
Integration of human behaviour in the improvement of safety
in French road tunnels
Marc Tesson, Centre D'Etudes des Tunnels, France |
Coping with aircraft emergencies and building fires: A qualitative
(grounded theory) study of the personal experiences
of people involved in two types of emergencies
Wendy Saunders, Victoria Univ, Australia
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CARE
OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
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Keynote
Paper Care of vulnerable populations: Who are vulnerable
to fires and what care is needed for their fire safety
Ai Sekizawa, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster,
Japan |
The effectiveness of voice alarms in waking sleeping children
Dorothy Bruck, S Reid and M Ball, Victoria Univ, Australia |
The effect of alcohol upon response to fire alarms signals in
sleeping young adults
Michelle Ball and D Bruck, Victoria Univ,
Australia |
The salience of fire alarms signals for sleeping individuals:
A novel approach to signal design
Michelle Ball and D Bruck, Victoria Univ, Australia |
How
to save lives of vulnerable people from residential fires?
Horoaki Notake, Shimizu Corp, A Sekizawa, M Ebihara, M Kobayashi,
Univ of Tokyo, A Manamot, Hochiki Corp, Japan |
A study of school children's attitude towards fire safety and
evacuation behaviour in Brazil and the comparison with data
from Japanese children
Rosaria Ono, Univ of San Paulo, Brazil and K Tatebe, Aichi Inst
of Tchnology, Japan |
Effectiveness
of fire safety education among primary school children
Lata Satyen, M Barnett and A Sosa, Victoria Univ, Australia |
| PHYSICAL
AND OPERATIONAL SAFETY SYSTEMS |
Keynote
Paper
Fire Management Systems
Stuart Rogers, Marks and Spencer plc, UK |
Development
of a fire safety training tool for staff in retails stores
Karen Boyce, TJ Shields Univ of Ulster, UK and D Samochine,
Academy of State Fire Service, Russia |
Crowd
characteristics and egress at stadia
Mike
Spearpoint and Kristin Hoskin, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand |
Analysis
on efficiency of evacuation using elevators in a high-rise building
Manabu Ebihara, A Sekizawa, Univ of Tokyo, S Nakahama, Y Ikehata,
Taisei Corp, H Notake, Shimizu Corp, Japan |
Modelling
of human response and behaviour in complex surroundings
Volker Schneider, IST Gmbh, Switzerland |
A
performance-based design of a hotel building using two egress
models; A comparison of the results
Erica Kuligowski, NIST/BFRL, USA |
Advances
in egress complexity
Gillian Livesey and H Donegan, University of Ulster, UK |
Investigation
of uncertainty in egress models and data
Brian Meacham, J Lord, Arup, R Fahy, NFPA, K Notarianni, NIST,
USA and G Proulx, NRC/IRC, Canada |
Can
you open the door and get out in an emergency? An explorative
study of usability and the operation of exit
devices on doors)
Lena Kecklund, MTO Psychology, B Hedskog, S Bengston, Brandskyddslaget,
Sweden |
Interactions
between buildings, fire and occupant behaviour using a relational
database created from incident investigations and interviews
David Purser, BRE, and M Kuipers, Writewell Research, UK |
User-centered
design can produce safer and more cost-effective buildings by
supporting the adoptive responses of
emergency teams and occupants
Norman Groner, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
Engineering
Human Behaviour: The "Human Factor" in performance
based regulations
Vincent Brannigan, Univ of Maryland, USA, A Kilpatrick, Glasgow
Caledonian Univ, UK |
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A
dynamic network model for circulation and evacuation
Shrikant Sharma, D Brocklehurst, P Westbury, Buro Happold, UK |
Capacity
evacuation flow on stairs and gangways (with emphasis on low
flow rate systems)
David Brocklehurst, G Palmer, Buro Happold, D Bouchlaghem, D
Pitfield, Looughborough Univ and K Still, Crowd Dynamics Ltd,
UK |
Implementation
of performance-based fire safety
design in Mei-Li-Hua shopping centre
Shen-Wen Chien, M-J Lin, Y-H Lu, Central Police Univ, W-S Hsu,
FORERUN Ltd, W-L Chen, National Fire Agency, and P-T Huang,
Ta-Jing Fire Safety & Risk Management Consultancy, Taiwan |
An
approach to fire alarm systems for people with hearing difficulties
Hiroyuki Tamura, D Koseki, K-i Takanashi, Nat'l Research Inst
for Fire and Disaster, Japan |
Development
of step-by-step ramps for assisting wheelchair users' evacuation
in emergencies
Hidemasa Yoshimura, M Fujimoto, Osaka Univ, Japan |
Landholders
and Fire: A two county case study from Washington State
Patricia Cohn, K Blatner, M Carroll, Was
hington State Univ,
USA |
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Index |
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