BACKGROUND Unintentional injuries are the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in young children, and most injuries occur in the home. OBJECTIVES To report findings from a primary prevention program that trained paramedics to conduct home safety surveys, provide family safety education, and identify common pediatric injury risks in the home. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed stand...

One of the areas in which fire hazard assessment techniques have been applied within regulation is for transportation vehicles. In particular, commercial aviation and passenger rail have utilized fire hazard assessment as a means to achieve safety goals well before these techniques became common in buildings. This chapter will review the methods employed and the recent evolution of predictive t...

A state-of-the-art integrated environment was created to study interaction among fire, structure and agent models in a fire evacuation from a typical office building. For the fire simulations NIST large-eddy simulation code Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) was used. The code is based on a mixture fraction model. FDS provided time resolved temperature, CO, CO2, soot distribution in the building. Th...

It’s an important evaluation architecture safety standards about personnel emergency evacuation under the fire condition, from the development trend of university gymnasium, it’s relatively rare that based on comprehensive evaluation the multi-functional gymnasium fire conditions personnel emergency evacuation study and there is no mature evaluation model can be applied to practical operation l...

1. To understand why and how a fire occurs, one needs to look at what is ignited, how it was ignited, and any other factors that may have changed either of these concepts. The three most common ignition sources are lasers, electric cautery equipment, and high intensity light cords. 2. There are four human reactions to fire: disbelief; do nothing; reconsideration of the existence of fire; and ta...

Recently while doing cataract surgery, I saw a visiting student wandering across our theatre unaware that he was trailing flames from his gown. Deserting my patient, I beat on the back of the unsuspecting student with my surgically gloved hands (!) to put out the flames. The student was not harmed except for a hole in his gown, though my hands were a bit scorched, and the seeds of this article ...

All healthcare facilities must have a plan for the protection of all persons on their premises and for their evacuation from the building in case of fire. Written copies of this plan must be available to all supervisory personnel. All employees must periodically trained and informed of their duties in implementing the plan. All beds must be easily movable should evacuation be necessary. Emphasi...

The occurrence of the secondary disasters of forest fire has significant impacts on the environment quality and human health and safety. Post-fire debris flow is one of the most hazardous secondary disasters of forest fire. To understand the occurrence conditions of post-fire debris flow and to master its occurrence situation are the critical elements in post-fire hazard assessment. From the vi...