Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety av Ganapathy Ramachandran, David Charters

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<P>Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a "Responsible Person" and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements specified in the regulations.</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>Although regulations only require a qualitative assessment of fire risk, a quantitative assessment is an essential first step for performing cost-benefit analysis of alternative fire strategies to comply with the regulations and selecting the most cost-effective strategy. To facilitate this assessment, various qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative techniques of fire risk assessment, already developed, are critically reviewed in this book and some improvements are suggested. </P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>This book is intended to be an expanded version of Part 7: Probabilistic risk assessment, 2003, a Published Docum