Human Behavior in Fire

This two-day seminar is intended for designers and regulatory officials with responsibility for the design of life safety systems in buildings, the development of evacuation scenarios for performance-based designs, or the estimation of evacuation response.  The information in this seminar is also applicable to post-event analysis.

This seminar will identify and review the key factors and considerations that impact the response and behavior of occupants evacuating a building during a fire.  Any life safety design, whether prepared to meet prescriptive or performance-based codes, should consider human behavior.  The anticipation of human behavior and prediction of human response is one of the most complex areas of fire protection engineering.  

This seminar outlines occupant characteristics, occupant response to cues – such as fire alarm signals, decision making by people in fire situations and prediction of evacuation times.