Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety Ramachandran Ganapathy
Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a Responsible…
Specifikacia Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety Ramachandran Ganapathy
Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a Responsible Person and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements specified in the regulations.Although regulations only require a qualitative assessment of fire risk, a quantitative assessment is an essential first step for performing cost-benefit analysis of alternative fire strategies to comply with the regulations and selecting the most cost-effective strategy. To facilitate this assessment, various qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative techniques of fire risk assessment, already developed, are critically reviewed in this book and some improvements are suggested.This book is intended to be an expanded version of