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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Research Report on Home Smoke Detectors Effectiveness written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan L. Gancarski
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Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Research Report on Home Smoke Detectors written by Joan L. Gancarski and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Coleman
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Total Pages : 83 pages
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Download or read book A Study of Smoke Detector Technology, Usage and Effectiveness written by Robert M. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As or 1994, 93% of U.S. homes had at least one smoke detector. Fifty percent of home fires occurred in homes with no smoke detector. Three-fifths of the home fire deaths occur in homes with no smoke detector. In 1/3 of the homes with detectors that had fires, the detectors were not operational. One-fifth of all homes with detectors had detectors that were not operational. The research identifies the principal reasons for non-operational smoke detectors and discusses strategies for addressing the residential fire problem in America. The research further identifies a flaw in the collection and analysis of fire loss data in the United States.
Author : Joan L. Gancarski
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Research Report on Home Smoke Detectors written by Joan L. Gancarski and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. Deml
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Total Pages : 27 pages
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Download or read book A Comparative Life-safety Study of the Effectiveness of Smoke Detectors Nationally Versus the City of Merrill written by Daniel J. Deml and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The data originated from the NFPA and the Wisconsin Fire Incident Report Forms for the years 1985 through 1989. The study supports the existence of a strong set of similarities between the national and local operational readiness of smoke detectors. The study also supports a link between the increased level of operational readiness locally and the local smoke detector campaign of 1986 and 1987. The challenge at hand is to develop, organize, and implement a comprehensive program that encourages the effective installation, maintenance, and testing of smoke detectors. The study provided valuable research concluding, smoke detectors can be a very effective tool if they are adequately installed, maintained, and tested. The study also supported the importance of re-initiating the local smoke detector campaign.
Author : Stanley Gilbert
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Estimating Smoke Alarm Effectiveness and Spatial Distribution in Homes written by Stanley Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets out to answer three questions. What effect does installing smoke detectors have on reported fires and casualties for the average household? How much of an effect would increasing smoke detector utilization have on the total number of fires and casualties in the United States? And what are the attributes of homes currently without smoke detectors and where are they located? We estimate the installation of smoke detectors in homes without them reduces the expected number of fires reported from a (formerly) non-smoke-detector residence by a factor of 3.5 to 5, and reduces the number of expected casualties by a factor of 2.5 to 3.5. Unexpectedly, we find the number of casualties per reported fire is lower for non-smoke- detector households compared to smoke-detector households. This could be due to changes in people's behavior when they have a smoke detector in the house or because the less dangerous fires are preferentially extinguished when smoke detectors are present. If smoke detectors were installed in all residences, the number of fires reported to the fire department could be reduced by 25 % or more. More realistically, each percent increase in smoke detector penetration reduces reported fires by more than 2.6 %. Finally, estimates of smoke detector utilization at the census tract level were developed for the entire country. We find evidence that the number of homes with smoke detectors are lower than current estimates that rely on telephone-only survey interviews. We estimate actual smoke detector usage is likely below 92 %. It seems likely that this is due to a correlation between phone presence and smoke detector utilization.
Author : United States Fire Administration. Office of Fire Protection Technology and Research
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An Evaluation of Residential Smoke Detectors Under Actual Field Conditions written by United States Fire Administration. Office of Fire Protection Technology and Research and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Waking Effectiveness of Household Smoke and Fire Detection Devices written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David B. Gratz
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Evaluation of Smoke Detectors in Homes written by David B. Gratz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Edwards
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Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Smoke Detectors and Their Effectiveness written by Dan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nearly 20 years since AMERICA BURNING was published, many states and municipalities have mandated the use of smoke detectors in the home. In addition, many persons who lived where no legislation was pending still had the foresight to install smoke detectors in their homes. Have smoke detectors been effective in reducing the number of deaths and injuries related to residential fires? Are the results what were hoped for when AMERICA BURNING was published? This paper will examine smoke detector effectiveness.
Author : M. D. Marriott
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ISBN 13 : 9781858931654
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Reliability and Effectiveness of Domestic Smoke Alarms written by M. D. Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book FEMA Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book FEMA Publications Catalog written by United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Rasbash
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470020075
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Evaluation of Fire Safety written by D. Rasbash and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire safety is a major concern in many industries, particularly as there have been significant increases in recent years in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants are becoming larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas, and the hazards are continually highlighted with incidents such as the fires and explosions at the Piper Alpha oil and gas platform, and the Enschede firework factory. As a result, greater attention than ever before is now being given to the evaluation and control of these hazards. In a comprehensive treatment of the subject unavailable elsewhere, this book describes in detail the applications of hazard and risk analysis to fire safety, going on to develop and apply quantification methods. It also gives an explanation in quantitative terms of improvements in fire safety in association with the costs that are expended in their achievement. Furthermore, a quantitative approach is applied to major fire and explosion disasters to demonstrate crucial faults and events. Featuring: Full international coverage and a review of several major fires and explosion disasters. Presentation of the properties and science of fire including the latest research. Detailed coverage of the performance of fire safety measures. This is an essential book for practitioners in fire safety engineering, loss prevention professionals, technical personnel in insurance companies as well as academics involved in fire science and postgraduate students. This book is also a useful reference for fire safety officers, building designers, engineers in the process industries, safety practitioners and risk assessment consultants.
Author : Arthur Lee
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book A Review of the Sound Effectiveness of Residential Smoke Alarms written by Arthur Lee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) initiated a project to review the audibility effectiveness of residential smoke alarms for the older population. The scope of the project was broadened to address recent concerns that children may not wake to the sound of a smoke alarm. The CPSC staff estimates that in 1999 there were 337,300 unintentional residential structure fires resulting in 2,390 civilian deaths, 14,550 civilian injuries, and $4.24 billion in property losses. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that, during the 24-year period from 1977 to 2001, home fires and home fire deaths dropped 49% and 47% respectively, excluding events from September 11,2001. In 2001, four of every five fire deaths occurred in home structure fires, excluding 9/11, according to NFPA.
Author : Stephen M. Ashbrock
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Analysis of Smoke Detector Performance on Residential Fire Loss written by Stephen M. Ashbrock and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoke detectors are an inexpensive device available to citizens to protect them in their residences from death, injury and loss due to fire. Fire departments have encouraged and even mandated the installation of these devices based on observations, nearly all of which lack statistical significance to "conclusively" demonstrate the effectiveness of smoke detectors to provide protection in residential fire situations. This study attempted to establish with statistical validity a reduction in dollar loss contributed by the presence and operation of smoke detectors in residential fires in the City of Reading, Ohio for the six year study period 1986-1991. All residential fires during the study period were retrospectively analyzed for detector performance and dollar loss. Incidents in which detectors operated were grouped and those incidents where detectors failed or were not present were grouped.
Author : Ganapathy Ramachandran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135818460
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Fire Protection written by Ganapathy Ramachandran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book, the first of its kind in the fire safety field, discusses the economic problems faced by decision-makers in the areas of fire safety and fire precautions. The author considers the theoretical aspects of cost-benefit analysis and other relevant economic problems with practical applications to fire protection systems. Clear examples are included to illustrate these techniques in action. The work covers: * the performance and effectiveness of passive fire protection measures such as structural fire resistance and means of escape facilities, and active systems such as sprinklers and detectors * the importance of educating for better understanding and implementation of fire prevention through publicity campaigns and fire brigade operations * cost-benefit analysis of fire protection measures and their combinations, taking into account trade-offs between these measures. The book is essential reading for consultants and academics in construction management, economics and fire safety, as well as for insurance and risk management professionals.
