Human factors influencing fire safety measures
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Factors Influencing Failure Emergency Evacuation in Work Environments during Fire
One of the necessary measures of saving human life in emergency situations, such as fires, is the safe and swift evacuation of people. The prerequisites for this are to anticipate, identify, and eliminate factors preventing people from leaving buildings in a timely and safe manner while moving them to a safe place [1]. The occurrence of errors caused by engineering, design, human, and psycholog...
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عنوان ژورنال: Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0965-3562
DOI: 10.1108/09653560410534243