LEADER 03304aam 2200505I 450 001 9910711379903321 005 20160926090654.0 024 8 $aGOVPUB-C13-536ac9d104c9701a7ea888cdc8c4584b 035 $a(CKB)5470000002482229 035 $a(OCoLC)958885559 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002482229 100 $a20160921d2016 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aThermal exposure sensor for fire fighters $efull-scale performance experiments /$fAtul Deshmukh; John G. Casali; Jeff A. Lancaster; Nelson P. Bryner; Roy A. McLane 210 1$aGaithersburg, MD :$cU.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (61 pages) $cillustrations (color) 225 1 $aNIST technical note ;$v1804 300 $aContributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. 300 $aJuly 2016. 300 $aTitle from PDF title page (viewed July 28, 2016). 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aDuring structural fire fighting suppression operations, fire fighters wear protective gear to insulate them from the high temperature environment including hot combustion gases, burning surfaces, and thermal radiation. Current turnout gear insulates the fire fighter to such an extent, basically encapsulating his/her entire body that it is more difficult for each individual fire fighter to understand how hazardous or hot the thermal environment is. A fire fighter s body is usually covered with protective gear during search and rescue operations. Therefore, the natural heatsensing mechanism of the body is incapable of sensing the ambient temperature, possibly putting firefighters at risk. A thermal sensing device that attaches to the visor of the head gear is designed to restore situational awareness of the firefighter by showing varying heat intensity through different colored warning indicators in the firefighter s line of sight. Human factors evaluation of the performance of the warnings in the thermal sensing device was conducted in laboratory-scale (i.e., climatic chamber experiments) and in full-scale (i.e. fire experiments in ISO room) environments. While a previous report discussed the laboratory-scale experiments, this report describes the full-scale fire exposure experiments. The evaluation involved tracking the performance of multiple thermal sensors within a standard room during live fire tests. 517 $aThermal exposure sensor for fire fighters 606 $aFire fighters$xSafety measures 606 $aFire extinction 615 0$aFire fighters$xSafety measures. 615 0$aFire extinction. 700 $aDeshmukh$b Atul$01387634 701 $aBryner$b Nelson P$01387635 701 $aCasali$b John G$01387636 701 $aDeshmukh$b Atul$01387634 701 $aLancaster$b Jeff A$01387637 701 $aMcLane$b Roy A$01387638 712 02$aNational Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.).$bEngineering Laboratory. 801 0$bNBS 801 1$bNBS 801 2$bGPO 801 2$bNBS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910711379903321 996 $aThermal exposure sensor for fire fighters$93437716 997 $aUNINA