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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 |
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 |
IMPACT
OF MAJOR FIRE EVENTS
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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 K Hoskins, 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 |
| PHYSICAL
AND OPERATIONAL SAFETY SYSTEMS |
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 |
Engineering
Human Behaviour: The "Human Factor" in performance
based regulations
Vincent Brannigan, Univ of Maryland, USA, A Kilpatrick,
Glasgow Caledonian Univ, UK |
| POSTERS |
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, Washington State
Univ, USA |
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