Human Behavior and Fire Emergencies: An Annotated Bibliography.
Human Behavior and Fire Emergencies: An Annotated
Bibliography.
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Paulsen, R. L.
NBSIR 81-2438; 135 p. December 1981.
Sponsor:
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB82-170168
Keywords:
bibliographies; evacuation; fire alarm systems; fire
fatalities; fires; high rise buildings; hospitals; human
behavior; nursing homes; panic; smoke detectors;
sprinkler systems
Abstract:
This report contains an annotated listing of 161
selected references pertaining to human behavior and
fire emergencies. The scope is broad: the references
cover the full range of behavioral responses through the
different stages of a fire emergency in the context of a
variety of occupancy settings. Health care institutions
are the most frequently represented occupancy type. May
research approaches are included; e.g., case studies of
individual incidents, survey studies of large numbers of
incidents, theoretical analyses and representations of
the fire situation, computer models, literature surveys,
and psychological studies of selected populations. The
work of researchers from many nations, including the
United States, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, West
Germany, France, Belgium, and the U.S.S.R., is
referenced. Annotations for papers from the first two
international conferences on human behavior in fires
(March 1977 and October 1978) are contained in this
bibliography. There is a topical index to provide the
reader with a preliminary guide to those references
regarding a particular occupancy type, research
approach, design freature, or category of behavioral
response. An introductory essay provides an overiew of
the field of human behavior and fires and develops some
common themes found in the literature.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899