SFPE Guide to Fire Risk Assessment: SFPE Task Group on Fire Risk Assessment (The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3031177029 ISBN 13: 9783031177026

Publisher: Springer, 2023

Synopsis

The SFPE Guide to Fire Risk Assessment provides guidance to qualified practitioners in developing, selecting, and using fire risk assessment methodologies for the design, construction, and operation of buildings, facilities, or processes. It also addresses fire risk acceptability, the role of fire risk assessment and fire risk management in the fire safety design process, and associated communication/ monitoring of fire risk.

The guide Includes a new flow chart that outlines the risk assessment process. It also includes new information related to:

• Risk Perception
• F-N curves
• Risk communication
• Residual risk management
• Risk monitoring
• Sensitivity analysis

The guide also provides clear guidance on conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis. It also uses examples that reinforce topics discussed.

About this title

About the Author

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) is the professional society representing those practicing the field of fire protection engineering. The Society has over 4,700 members and 92 chapters, including 17 student chapters worldwide.

From the Back Cover

The SFPE Guide to Fire Risk Assessment provides guidance to qualified practitioners in developing, selecting, and using fire risk assessment methodologies for the design, construction, and operation of buildings, facilities, or processes. It also addresses fire risk acceptability, the role of fire risk assessment and fire risk management in the fire safety design process, and associated communication/ monitoring of fire risk.

The guide Includes a new flow chart that outlines the risk assessment process. It also includes new information related to:

• Risk Perception
• F-N curves
• Risk communication
• Residual risk management
• Risk monitoring
• Sensitivity analysis

The guide also provides clear guidance on conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis. It also uses examples that reinforce topics discussed.

• Provides an introduction for the fire safety community: fire protection engineers, designers,and code authorities;
• Considers the requirements documented in standards governing the development and maintenance of a fire risk assessment;
• Organizes in one source advances reported in research publications, not necessarily written for and available to most.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031177029
• ISBN 13: 9783031177026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Guerrazzi Austin