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The safety culture must be systematically built taking into account the actual piece of knowledge and experience. The safety management establishing the safety culture has three basic phases: the standard (current) management, emergency management and crisis management. With regard to a present knowledge the optimum safety of the set of infrastructures is not the set of optimum safeties of partial...
Evacuating a building in an emergency situation can be very confusing and dangerous. Exit signs are static and thus have no ability to convey information about congestion or danger between the sign and the actual exit door. Emergency personnel may arrive too late to assist in an evacuation. Robots, however, can be stored inside of buildings and can be used to guide evacuees to the best available exit...
This paper examines the collaborative underpinning of sustainability and suggests the adoption of collaboration as a basis for developing a Sustainable Lens. A framing reference of sustainable practice is used to provide direction to a consideration of the relationship between sustainability and collaboration. This is then used to prompt a discussion of research implications.
Design, development and implementation of advanced technological systems is the challenging business experienced by industry engineers in every day professional life. The increased complexity of such systems and the huge amount of information to be managed makes the challenge even more hard. The new European Air Traffic Management System under development in the framework of the SESAR Programme represents...
The object of this study is to investigate the human evacuation behavior and smoke behavior of a fire in an underground emporium. A practical survey about the occupants characteristics of number, age and gender was carried out. Then, different fire locations and occupants load in the fourth fire protection zone of the underground emporium were conducted numerically by using a CFD model FDS+Evac. And...
In China, the safety of high falsework is a worrying problem, and human error is the uppermost reason for the collapse of falsework. In this paper, on the bases of test data of axial forces of vertical bars of the falsework in a construction site, a phenomenon of improper erection of vertical bar (IEVB) is described and analyzed. The effect of IEVB on structural reliability is discussed, and the results...
Pre-evacuation time is a critical phase in evacuation process. This phase takes a big part of total evacuation time, but by simplifying this process has made some computer simulation are far away from reality. A cognitive behavior model as a representation of the occupant responses and actions against emergency notification has built in our computer simulation. A survey in order to get some responses...
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