LEADER 02900nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910143511503321 005 20200716210637.0 010 $a0-470-02008-3 010 $a1-280-27483-2 010 $a9786610274833 010 $a1-61344-918-6 010 $a0-470-02007-5 035 $a(CKB)111087027140058 035 $a(EBL)219710 035 $a(OCoLC)54768627 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000150830 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159002 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150830 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281122 035 $a(PQKB)10593518 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC219710 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027140058 100 $a20031030d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEvaluation of fire safety$b[electronic resource] /$fD. Rasbash ... [et al.] 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, England ;$aHoboken, NJ $cJohn Wiley$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (497 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-471-56028-6 311 $a0-471-49382-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEVALUATION OF FIRE SAFETY; CONTENTS; Preface; PART I STRUCTURE OF THE FIRE PROBLEM; 1 The place of fire safety in the community; 2 The fire safety system; 3 Review of some major fire & explosion disasters; 4 Requirements from public and private authorities for fire safety; PART II QUANTIFYING FIRE SAFETY; 5 Physical data; 6 Sources of statistical data; 7 Occurrence and growth of fire; 8 Life loss; 9 Property damage; 10 Performance of fire safety measures; PART III METHODS OF MEASURING FIRE SAFETY; 11 Deterministic fire safety modeling; 12 Model Validation; 13 Point systems ? a single index 327 $a14 Logic trees15 Stochastic fire risk modeling; 16 Fire safety concepts tree and derivative approaches; 17 Fire safety assessment in the process industries; Index; 330 $aFire safety is a major concern in many industries, particularly as there have been significant increases in recent years in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants are becoming larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas, and the hazards are continually highlighted with incidents such as the fires and explosions at the Piper Alpha oil and gas platform, and the Enschede firework factory. 606 $aFire protection engineering 606 $aFire prevention 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFire protection engineering. 615 0$aFire prevention. 676 $a363.377 676 $a628.922 701 $aRasbash$b D$0981865 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910143511503321 996 $aEvaluation of fire safety$92240804 997 $aUNINA