Making Asbestos Fire Curtains and Fireproof Fabrics

Flashes and curtains.

Lessons learnt from a factory fire with asbestos-containing fallout.

BACKGROUND Fallout containing asbestos from a factory fire at Tranmere, Wirral, England, landed on a highly populated urban area with an estimated 16000 people living in the area worst affected, which included a shipbuilding community. There was considerable public concern over the health impact of the acute environmental incident, and great media interest. METHODS A descriptive study was car...

Madia Fabrics: The Problem of Time in Personal Media Making

Storytelling is an activity of intelligent play generated by humans for the benefit of humans. Qualities of intelligent play reflect the intentions, processes and tools that are available to humans for the purpose of story construction. Personal media collections speak to intention. They als serve as a tool to help us better communicate who we are and who we would like to become. Augmented by c...

Asbestos Presence in a Factory that Produced Asbestos-Containing Products

In 2007, research was carried out to determine the type and amount of asbestos fibers in a Croatian factory with a long history of making asbestos-containing products.Since the 1970s, asbestos fibres have been considered carcinogenic in humans i.e as a known cancer-causing agent. In the environment, asbestos fibres are inactive and naturally resist biodegradation. In time, fibres can only be gr...

Decision Making in Fire Risk Management

Various normative decision theories are discussed in the context of fire risk management. A method suitable for practical decision making in respect to fire safety investments is presented and exemplified. The method involves the use of second-order probabilities to represent uncertainty regarding probability values. A discussion on the use of Bayes theorem in combination with decision analysis...