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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
doaj   +1 more source

Ergonomics and manual handling workplace improvement: a case study of firefighter at Pagoh [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Development and assessment of fire-related risk unavailability matrices to support the application of the maintenance rule in a PWR nuclear power plant [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative risk assessment on a hydrogen refuelling station [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Surface moisture and temperature trends anticipate drought conditions linked to wildfire activity in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +4 more sources

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