The Concepts of Safety Level and Safety Margin: Framework for Fire Safety Design of Novel Buildings

Bjelland, Henrik; Njå, Ove; Heskestad, Atle William; Braut, Geir Sverre

doi:10.1007/s10694-014-0400-y

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“…From a broad perspective, the literature associated with the regulation of risk and hazards through the building regulatory system has been particularly helpful in providing benchmarks and framing the analysis (e.g., [15]). Relevant areas include architectural design (e.g., [23]); seismic performance of buildings (e.g., [24]); moisture performance of building exteriors (e.g., [9,25,26]); energy performance of buildings (e.g., [27]); fire safety in building regulations [28][29][30][31]; and management of risk more broadly through building regulation (e.g, [8,[32][33][34]). Questions posed by Meacham and van Straalen [15] help frame the overall evaluation.…”

Section: Role Of Regulations In Establishing Tolerable Levels Of Risk In Societymentioning

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Evaluation of the Legal Framework for Building Fire Safety Regulations in Spain

Osácar¹,

Trueba

Meacham

2021

Buildings

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There is a trend in Europe towards increasing the quality and performance of regulations. At the same time, regulatory failure has been observed in the area of building fire safety regulation in England and elsewhere. As a result, an analysis of the appropriateness of fire safety regulations in Spain is warranted, with the objective being to assess whether a suitable level of fire safety is currently being delivered. Three basic elements must be considered in such analysis: the legal and regulatory framework, the level of fire risk/safety of buildings that is expected and the level which actually results, and a suitable method of analysis. The focus of this paper is creating a legal and regulatory framework, in particular with respect to fire safety in buildings. Components of an ”ideal” building regulatory framework to adequately control fire risk are presented, the existing building regulatory framework is summarized, and an analysis of the gaps between the ideal and the existing systems is presented. It is concluded that the gaps between the ideal and the existing framework are significant, and that the current fire safety regulations are not appropriate for assuring delivery of the intended level of fire risk mitigation.

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Section: Role Of Regulations In Establishing Tolerable Levels Of Risk In Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the Legal Framework for Building Fire Safety Regulations in Spain

Osácar¹,

Trueba

Meacham

2021

Buildings

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“…We are particularly interested in designs that have more (or less) failure likelihood when compared to those meeting regulatory standards. Recognition of such standards may be difficult to define Bjelland et al 2 argues even though may make the argument Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) makes these kinds of estimates. The regulatory "adequate protection", together with the design and operational decisions made by the for-profit enterprise (largely an engineering responsibility) that can lead to catastrophic failure (Fig.…”

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“…Restatement of Torts Second, section 519, provides: (1) One who carries on an abnormally dangerous activity is subject to liability for harm to the person, land or chattels of another resulting from the activity, although he has exercised the utmost care to prevent the harm. (2) This strict liability is limited to the kind of harm, the possibility of which makes the activity abnormally dangerous. To determine whether an activity is abnormally dangerous, see Restatement of Torts Second, section 520.…”

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Safety-Critical Protective Systems and Margins of Safety

Wortman,

Kee,

Kannan

2020

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“…Nevertheless, a common approach to overcome the challenges of implementing a PRA is to adopt a mechanistic and highly structured approach, a sort of recipe. Such a mechanistic use of PRA's to demonstrate compliance, rather than to inform all relative stakeholders [7], could therefore unintentionally direct FSE practitioners to misuse this tool. This would perpetuate the issues identified by Hackitt [5] and Shergold-Weir [6].…”

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