The Second Edition of SFPE's Engineering Guide: Human Behavior in Fire distills the most relevant science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event.
Updates have been made to the following topics:
- Incapacitating effects of fire effluent
- Toxicity analysis methods
- Occupant behavior scenarios
- Movement and behavioral models
- Egress model selection, verification, and validation
- Estimation of uncertainty and use of safety factors
- Enhancing human response to emergencies notification of messaging
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