A system for fire safety evaluation of health care facilities

Development of a Framework for Quality Assurance of Performance-based Fire Safety Designs

“…Measurable parameters can be used to direct the designer to a specific level, which would decrease the problem with subjectivity and make ranking of the design alternatives possible. A number of well-known semi-quantitative methods [30][31][32][33] would fit this purpose, for example index methods.…”

Revisiting Our 1991 Paper on Fire Risk Assessment

“…In the U.S., this continued the index format in what was called Fire Safety Evaluation Systems [6], led by Bud Nelson. In Japan, this took the form of the 5-year Ministry of Construction initiative that led to the guideline of fire safety design method as a tool for alternative solutions based on Building Standard Law, Article 38.…”

Fire Research At Nbs: The First 75 Years

“…In addition, each facility is rated according to occupancy risk, which takes into account the number, age and mobility of occupants as well as the availability of trained staff. This was done initially for institutional health care facilities as prescribed in the 1973 NFPA Life Safety Code and subsequently for a variety of other types of occupancies [60][61][62][63][64]. It may be used for upgrading existing buildings as well as for comparing alternative new designs, thereby permitting building designers and code officials to achieve an equivalent level of safety often at lower cost.…”