Study of announced evacuation drill from a retail store

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 864-870

  Xudong, Cheng ^a   Heping, Zhang ^a   Qiyuan, Xie ^a   Yong, Zhou ^a   Hongjiang, Zhang ^b   Chenjie, Zhang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Jiangxi Fire General Brigade   (China)

Author keywords

Evacuation drill; Evacuation time; Occupant characteristics; Retail store

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DRILLS; FIRE PROTECTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SALES; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANALYSIS RESULTS; EMERGENCY EXITS; EVACUATION DRILL; EVACUATION PROCESS; EVACUATION TIME; FIRE SAFETY; INPUT PARAMETERS; OCCUPANT CHARACTERISTICS; RETAIL STORE; STAFF TRAINING;

RETAIL STORES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BUILDING; FIRE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; MODELING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 58749113992     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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