Evaluation of Imminent Fire Hazards of Inheritance Ancestral Temple and Mansion in Georgetown, Penang [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2014 Fire hazards of the inheritance buildings are often been neglected, causing fire to take place. Most of the heritage buildings are of large scale, flammable priceless contents and large numbers of visitors, however, the existing structures are weak in ...
Othuman Mydin M.A. +3 more
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Ergonomics and manual handling workplace improvement: a case study of firefighter at Pagoh [PDF]
, 2021 Firefighter are constantly at risk since they are directly exposed to various physical factors, harmful chemicals and mental stress during rescue and fire-fighting.
Abdul Rahman, Ismail +4 more
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Jàmbá, 2011 South Africa is a complex and dynamic society, with overwhelming and increasing problems with disaster risk in the vulnerable urban communities in and around its rapidly growing metropolitan centres.
Ann-Sofie Roth, Per Becker
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Fire, 2023 This paper presents a review of concepts related to wildfire risk assessment, including the determination of fire ignition and propagation (fire danger), the extent to which fire may spatially overlap with valued assets (exposure), and the potential ...
Emilio Chuvieco +26 more
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Development and assessment of fire-related risk unavailability matrices to support the application of the maintenance rule in a PWR nuclear power plant [PDF]
, 2016 Two methods are presented which serve to incorporate the fire-related risk into the current practices in nuclear power plants with respect to the assessment of configurations.
Asamoah, Matthew +5 more
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Fire Risk Assessment of Heritage Villages: A Case Study on Chengkan Village in China
Fire, 2023 Fire risk assessment is important in heritage-village risk management and cultural relics protection. This study aims to establish a fire risk assessment system and model to assess fire safety for heritage villages.
Yunfa Wu +3 more
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Quantitative risk assessment on a hydrogen refuelling station [PDF]
, 2018 The Directive 2014/94/UE (DAFI, Alternative Fuel Initiative Directive) on the deployment of alternative fuels (i.e. hydrogen) infrastructures has been recently transposed into national law in Italy.
Capobianco, Luigi +3 more
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Calculation of the flame size from burning liquid pools [PDF]
, 2016 The calculation of the consequences associated with a pool fire consists in a stepwise procedure where a number of parameters must be characterized, which depend on the geometrical size and shape of the flame. A number of calculation models exists in the
BUBBICO, Roberto +2 more
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Surface moisture and temperature trends anticipate drought conditions linked to wildfire activity in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2016 In this study, drought conditions involving risk of fires are detected applying SMOS-derived soil moisture data and land surface temperature models. Moisture-temperature (SM-LST) patterns studied between 2010 and 2014 were linked to main fire regimes in ...
Camps Carmona, Adriano José +3 more
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GIS-grid-based and multi-criteria analysis for identifying and mapping peat swamp forest fire hazard in Pahang, Malaysia [PDF]
, 2004 Peat swamp forest fire hazard areas were identified and mapped by integrating GIS-grid-based and multi-criteria analysis to provide valuable information about the areas most likely to be affected by fire in the Pekan District, south of Pahang, Malaysia ...
Mahmud, Ahmad Rodzi +4 more
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