Coloured flashing lights to mark emergency exits - Experiences from evacuation experiments

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 569-579

  Nilsson, Daniel ^a   Frantzich, Håkan ^a   Saunders, Wendy ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour; Coloured flashing lights; Coloured strobe lights; Emergency exit; Evacuation experiments

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FIRES; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EMERGENCY EXIT; EVACUATION EXPERIMENT; FLASHING LIGHTS; GREEN LIGHT; RED LIGHT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 63449112200     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.8-569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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