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Fire safety measures - management for non-professionals decision makers

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Summary:	The complexity of the fire safety legal framework in itself poses problems to non-professionals decision makers regarding its application. Thus, in an attempt to generalize its interpretation, this paper presents a methodology for non-professionals users aiming to identify the measures defined under the fire safety regulations. The proposed methodology, of a broad application nature, intends to be a user-friendly tool to those responsible for applying fire safety measures to buildings and premises as established in the fire safety technical regulation. A decision support protocol is designed to determine which fire safety measures apply, using a flowchart representing the operations sequence involved in the process.
Subject:	Tecnologia da segurança, Outras ciências da engenharia e tecnologias Safety technology, Other engineering and technologies
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	book
Access type:	Open
Associated institution:	Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Language:	Portuguese
Origin:	Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto

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Summary:	The complexity of the fire safety legal framework in itself poses problems to non-professionals decision makers regarding its application. Thus, in an attempt to generalize its interpretation, this paper presents a methodology for non-professionals users aiming to identify the measures defined under the fire safety regulations. The proposed methodology, of a broad application nature, intends to be a user-friendly tool to those responsible for applying fire safety measures to buildings and premises as established in the fire safety technical regulation. A decision support protocol is designed to determine which fire safety measures apply, using a flowchart representing the operations sequence involved in the process.