Introduction to Fire Risk Assessment

This seminar is intended for fire protection engineers and individuals interested in the application of risk assessment in fire protection design.  Those who would benefit from this seminar include fire protection and systems engineers, fire protection risk managers, insurance professionals, quality control engineers, architects and others interested in preparing fire risk assessment reports for application to buildings designs utilizing both performance-based and prescriptive code design methodologies.  Experience in probability and statistics is not necessary, but helpful.

This two-day seminar will cover:

1. Overview of Fire Risk Assessment
2. Project Scope and Goals
3. Objectives Metrics and Thresholds
4. Identifying and Characterizing Hazards
5. Developing Fire Scenarios
6. Specify Scenario Structures
7. Sources, Use, and Limitation of Data
8. Frequency Analysis, Methodologies, and Quantification of Event Frequencies
9. Consequence Analysis, Methodologies, and Quantification of Consequence
10. Calculating Fire Risk
11. Uncertainty Analyses, Review and Consideration of Assessment Results
12. Analysis of Risk Assessment Results and Use in Decision Making Process
13. Documenting Risk Analysis Process