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Fire safety management in public health-care buildings: issues and possible solutions

Journal of Facilities Management, 2021
Purpose Frequent fire incidences in various hospitals across the globe with devastating effects on humans and other resources have multiplied. Stakeholders in the health-care sector are worried because of the yearly fire outbreak increase. However, fire
N. A. Agus Salim   +5 more
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Fire in the OR—Developing a fire safety plan

AORN Journal, 2004
Approximately 100 operating room fire occur each year in the United States. Although rare, fire in a perioperative setting can be disastrous for both patients and staff members. It is crucial that all perioperative departments have a well thought out and previously rehearsed fire plan in place. Multidisciplinary planning and implementation of regularly
Patricia M. McCarthy, Kenneth A. Gaucher
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Increasing Fire Safety – Fire and Life Safety Ecosystem [PDF]

open access: possibleOffshore Technology Conference Brasil, 2019
While we are currently seeing less fires, statistically, if you do have a fire in your home, you are more likely to die today than you were 20 years ago. Add to that, that every 24 seconds, a U.S. fire department responds to a fire somewhere in the country. Nationwide, a civilian died in a fire every 2 hours and 34 minutes. (From the 2017 U.S.
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Buildings Fires and Fire Safety

2021
Besides providing indoor living comfort, a building must also ensure the safety of its occupants. Natural disasters excluded, the safety of a building’s occupants is most often threatened by fire. More than one-third of all fires in the world are related to fires in buildings, and currently more than 10 people per million of the population die in ...
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High Fire‐Safety and Multifunctional Eutectogel for Flexible Quasi‐Solid‐State Supercapacitors

Advanced Functional Materials
The preparation of high‐performance and fire‐safe electrolytes for flexible quasi‐solid‐state supercapacitors is challenging. In this work, a novel fire‐safe and multifunctional deep eutectic solvent gel (DESG) is fabricated using acrylic acid and urea ...
Qingtao Zeng   +5 more
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Data-Driven Fire Safety Management at Building Construction Sites: Leveraging CNN

, 2021
Fire safety management on site is important during the implementation of construction projects.
Y. Su   +4 more
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Fire safety in hospitals

Ergonomics, 1983
Abstract For the DHSS, who are involved in providing a life-saving and cost-effective health care service, fires in hospitals, which can destroy this service, are a cause of great concern. Improving fire safety in the NHS is dependent on achieving the right balance for each Health Authority, between function, safety and cost, and it is here that the ...
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Fires and Building Safety

2020
Fires are widespread during the recent past and wildland fires and building fires have been reported. A building is computer modeled using Zone Modeling concept to study the temperature and smoke distribution of a one-story building due to a fire based on conservation of mass and energy.
M. Thomas   +4 more
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Fire Safety in Spacecraft

Fire and Materials, 1996
Fire prevention, detection, and suppression requirements for spacecraft are based on those established for terrestrial and aircraft systems. In the weightless (or microgravity) environment of an orbiting spacecraft, however, the buoyant upward flow typical of fires in terrestrial environments is nearly absent; and this feature profoundly influences ...
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Green Synthesis of Biomass Phytic Acid-Functionalized UiO-66-NH2 Hierarchical Hybrids toward Fire Safety of Epoxy Resin

, 2020
A phosphorus abundant biomass phytic acid (PA)-functionalized metal–organic framework (MOF) UiO-66-NH2 (PA-UiO66-NH2) was synthesized successfully as a novel fire retardant (FR) to reduce fire haza...
Jing Zhang   +4 more
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