fire safety Articles
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Does Your Absorbent Product Help Address Fire Safety - “Stop, drop and roll!”
Adults everywhere recognize this mantra from fire safety lessons they attended as children. When it comes to fire safety, people usually learn how to address a potential fire from a young age, including how to identify and remove fire hazards around their homes. Unfortunately as adults the rules of fire safety become more complicated. It may not be possible to remove or replace flammable items ...
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Fire Safety, tragically, in the Spotlight
Following the deeply upsetting fire in a tower block in west London this week, there is understandably a real focus by the press and general public on fire standards, particularly in high-rise buildings. Much has already been spoken and written on regarding the age and condition of the building in question, the potential impact of the recently installed cladding and the affect it had on the ...
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The Case for Flame Retardant Free Furniture
HEAL joins a coalition of NGOs to stress concerns about the implications from the presence of harmful flame retardants chemicals in furniture products. A variety of flammability standards for furniture exist in Europe. Some standards lead to the use of hazardous flame retardants chemicals without providing a demonstrated fire safety benefit. Flame retardants may cause serious harm to human ...
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Fire risk to a local shopping mall
This paper addresses the safety aspects of local shopping malls. There are concerns about occupant density, high fire load and inadequate fire safety provisions such as passive building design, active fire protection and fire safety management. Therefore, a preliminary study on such a shopping mall was carried out in order to understand the potential fire hazard. A site survey was carried out to ...
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Don't get your fingers burnt: preventative maintenance for fire safety systems
If the recent fire at South Africa's parliament building has taught the preventative maintenance industry anything, it's that you can never take the risk of skipping a maintenance job. The day the fire broke out, the sprinklers weren't activated, and the fire alarm system didn't work. If the building's fire safety system had been working, the local fire department would have been alerted sooner ...
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Improved thermal management of structures – a simplified mathematical approach
This paper considers the management of buildings for fire safety. It is found that fire and the associated effects on buildings is significantly different to other forms of loading such as gravity live loads, wind and earthquakes and their respective effects on the building structure. Fire events are derived from the human activities within buildings or from the malfunction of mechanical and ...
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Numerical Prediction of Effects of Gravity on the Centerline Temperature and Velocity of Axi-symmetric Fire Plumes
The objective of this work is to study the variation of axi-symmetric fire plume structure with the variation of gravity level, which is of great significance to aviation and spaceflight. Numerical simulation of fire plume under various gravity levels is proposed here. Detailed comparison and analysis of centerline temperature and velocity are carried out. The results show that the variation of ...
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Is STOP-FYRE Safe to Use? We Put It to The Test!
We often get asked where STOP-FYRE is safe to use. It’s safe EVERYWHERE! To prove this, we sprayed STOP-FYRE on a variety of surfaces to show how it doesn’t do any damage. The non-corrosive gas element of STOP-FYRE makes it environmentally safe and won’t harm electronics, car engines, or people. In fact, we’re the ONLY fire extinguisher the NTPA trusts to use on their ...
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Use of analytic hierarchy process and fire dynamics simulator to assess the fire protection systems in a tunnel on fire
The road and rail tunnels are increasing in number. Corresponding to this higher number of tunnels, a higher number of accidents related to safety problems occur. The safety of road and rail tunnels is mostly related to fire safety. Our purpose in this paper is to present a new integrated approach to the analysis of fire safety in tunnels. Using different techniques from the decision support ...
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Performance-based Fire Safety Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams
A numerical model, in the form of a computer program, is presented for tracing the fire behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams over the entire range of loading from pre-fire conditions to collapse under fire. The three stages associated with the analysis of fire resistance; namely, establishing the fire temperature—time development, calculating the heat transfer through the structure from the ...
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Importance of Dry Risers for Fire Safety
Fighting fires in high rise buildings is challenging. It would not be possible for firemen to just aim their hoses from the ground floor and hope to reach those floors that are higher up. It would also not be feasible for them to run up flights of stairs trailing a hose behind them. Many high rise buildings can have twenty floors or more and a fire can happen anywhere. The ability to get water to ...
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Fire Safety Assessment of Halogen-free Flame Retardant Polypropylene Based on Cone Calorimeter
This study addresses the fire performance of polypropylene compounded with different flame retardants in the cone calorimeter tests and UL-94 burning tests. The parameters measured include heat release rate, time to ignition, smoke, and CO/CO2 yields, on the basis of which fire hazard analysis is carried out. By injection-molding different burn-rated polypropylene composites into television ...
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Fit for Purpose WalkSafe
Introduction In nearly all instances it is impractical to prevent roof access; therefore the ideal solution is to create a level, anti-slip surface to protect against all fall hazards. WalkSafe provides a demarcation route, guiding a workers’ movement in areas that there are potential fall hazards. To ensure the Latchways product is Fit for Purpose, Latchways have invested heavily in ...
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Do You Smell Something Burning?
For safety and insurance purposes, most if not all mechanical codes have requirements with regards to fire safety for materials used in a building’s HVAC systems. For instance, the State of Ohio (USA) MechanicalCode states in the section on “Air Filters” that:Media-type and electrostatic-type air filters shall be listed and labeled. Media-type air filter shall comply with UL ...
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The Importance of Fire Extinguisher Training
Fire safety is a critical aspect of ensuring the well-being of individuals and the preservation of property. While various measures are taken to prevent fires, such as adhering to building codes and maintaining electrical systems, it’s equally important to be prepared for the eventuality of a fire breaking out. One of the most essential tools in a fire emergency is a fire extinguisher. ...
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Oregon Hazmat Responders Receive 2013 Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Fire Service Safety leadership Award
Cerex is pleased to announce the Tualatin Valley Fire Rescue, using a Cerex Micro Hound UVDOAS multi-gas analyzer for overhaul phase airborne toxicants studies has received national recognition for their efforts to improve fire-fighter safety practices. FIRE SERVICE SAFETY LEADERSHIP AWARD TO BE PRESENTED TO THREE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR COLLECTIVE WORK TO IMPROVE FIREFIGHTER HEALTH AND SAFETY ...
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Checklist: Acting Safely in Emergencies
A step-by-step guide to keeping a cool head in emergency situations To prevent injuries to personnel as much as possible, good first aid and fire safety training for professionals and regular drills for all employees are essential. In the case of bigger incidents that can affect multiple people or necessitate a full evacuation, it is crucial that all employees have the same level of ...
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The Importance of Gas Analyzers in Fire Safety and Prevention!
In the quest to ensure comprehensive fire safety and prevention, one of the most important steps is to invest in quality gas analyzers. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why gas analyzers are necessary for commercial businesses, as well as provide a guide on selecting the right type of analyzer for different applications. Gas analyzers play a critical role in keeping business owners ...
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Evaluation of CFD Modeling Methods for Fire-induced Airflow in a Room
Methods for exploiting the technique of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model fires and the associated fundamental processes of combustion and radiation are appraised by applying the CFD model JASMINE to simulate the fire-induced airflow in a room-sized compartment. For a systematic evaluation of these methods describing the fundamental processes and the associated mathematical formulation, ...
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Leading fire research institute gains accuracy and reliability with precise and continuous gas measurements - Case Study
The UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute helps answer critical questions around fire safety and fire management through conducting live-fire experiments utilizing a variety of instruments and sensors. These instruments include a sophisticated sample conditioning system which incorporates Siemens ULTRAMAT 23 Gas Analyzers, capturing insightful information about fuel combustion and gas ...
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