Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Industrial Fire Protection: An Alternative to Prescriptive Codes

The steps, methods, and tools described in this book are intended to bridge the gap between qualitative and quantitative fire risk assessment by filling the void between educated opinion and objective decision support information.

The book presents a risk-based decision support process to help identify fire safe design and protection alternatives and then select the best alternative(s) based on risk tolerance, meeting the performance intent of applicable codes, and cost/benefit criteria.

Fire safe design responsibility includes many groups; architects, facility and process designers, fire protection and safety engineers, loss control and risk managers; review and approval groups including building code officials, fire marshals, regulatory agencies, and insurance companies. In this book, all these groups are placed under one title, “Risk-Based Decision Makers.”

Risk-Informed” provides another dimension to the traditional approaches taken towards life safety and fire protection design methods and practices. It provides a path forward for situations where applying prescriptive codes is not feasible or cost-effective, where applying performance-based deterministic modeling has many uncertainties, or where there is a desire to conduct cost/benefit analysis of numerous fire protection alternatives.

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Over 700 pages. Fire safety professionals in 34 countries have purchased this book.