For fire risk experts, the most parsimonious model is one that identifies errors due to human
and organizational factors (HOFs) that can be changed through a series of interventions …

A wide range of uncertainties will be introduced inevitably during the process of performing
a safety assessment of engineering systems. The impact of all these uncertainties must be …

In fire safety engineering, information about the expected walking speed of occupants
through smoke is often one factor that is of interest to the designer. However, despite the fact …

There will be simplifying assumptions and idealizations in the availability models of complex
processes and phenomena. These simplifications and idealizations generate uncertainties …

The fire safety of a performance-based design is often evaluated using deterministic
analysis. In deterministic analysis, a number of representative fire scenarios, the design fire …

For many years, simultaneous evacuation of the entire facility was a common approach. The
deficiencies of this approach were revealed after many cases of casualties and evacuation …

The fundamental problems related to uncertainty in quantitative risk analyses, used in
decision making in safety-related issues (for instance, in land use planning and licensing …

The paper demonstrates how two quantitative risk analysis (QRA) methods may be used to
evaluate the risk to which the occupants of a building may be subjected if a fire breaks out …

More than 55% of recorded fire incidents in multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) are
induced by human error factors causing threats to the public and tremendous economic …

Over the past fifty years, fire safety engineering† has grown and developed into an
accepted, if not fully mature, engineering discipline. This has been possible for a variety of …