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Fire Safety Risk Assessment of Workplace Facilities: A Case Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2022
Workplace facilities are organizational capital assets, which entail high risks of fire occurrences. The fire risks increase based on occupants’ behaviors, lack of awareness and poor workspaces safety management.
Mohammad A. Hassanain   +3 more
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High-rise Building Group Regional Fire Risk Assessment Model Based on AHP [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2016
Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a regional fire risk assessment model is developed for high-rise building group considering the fire danger degree, basic characters of the high-rise building group and fire control capability.
Wei Zhu, Qiuju You
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Fire Risk Assessment of a Ship’s Power System under the Conditions of an Engine Room Fire

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
This paper presents a risk assessment method for a ship’s power system under the conditions of an engine room fire based on the expert comprehensive evaluation (ECE) method combined with the fuzzy fault tree analysis (FFTA) method. The composition of the
Chenfeng Li   +3 more
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Challenges to disaster risk reduction: A study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa

open access: yesJàmbá, 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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Towards an Integrated Approach to Wildfire Risk Assessment: When, Where, What and How May the Landscapes Burn

open access: yesFire, 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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Fire Risk Assessment of Heritage Villages: A Case Study on Chengkan Village in China

open access: yesFire, 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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Implementation of the 'Gustav Purt' method in fire risk assessment in military facilities [PDF]

open access: yesВојно дело, 2017
Despite intense technological and technical progress in all segments of human activities, nowadays there are often unwanted events with severe consequences. Here, of course, we include fires as an unpredictable and often catastrophic phenomenon. In order
Komljenović Slaven   +2 more
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A Trustworthy Classification Model for Intelligent Building Fire Risk

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
The occurrence of intelligent building fires causes huge economic losses to the country and society, and even people’s safety. It is necessary to accurately assess the degree of intelligent building fire risk so that the fire emergency management ...
Weilin Wu, Yixiang Chen
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A Parametric Fire Risk Assessment Method Supporting Performance Based Approaches – Application to Health-care Facilities in Northern Italy

open access: yesChemical Engineering Transactions, 2017
Fire risk assessment has always been a challenging issue. Furthermore, performance based approaches to fire engineering showed that risk based decisions and fire scenarios are a fundamental element of the fire safety strategy assurance.
E. Danzi, L. Fiorentini, L. Marmo
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Fire Risk Assessment and Driving Factor Analysis for the Building Complex of the Palace Museum in China

open access: yesFire
The unique structure of ancient buildings poses a significant risk of fire hazards, so the assessment of potential fire risk is of great significance to fire safety management. This paper examines the fire risk associated with the building complex of the
Xinwei Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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