Main description:

This book provides a comprehensive overview of deaths and injuries from residential fires as well as the most up to date information on evidence-based approaches to reduce this problem. The volume serves as a guide for professionals working in the field of fire prevention and as a textbook for instruction in universities and fire service schools. The authors' interdisciplinary approach, where public health methodology is combined with fire protection engineering, medicine, and policy science, is quite distinctive outside of the technical literature devoted to larger scale fire events. Traditional textbooks on fire protection tend to describe the problem as purely technical, whereas in essence it is a problem of human vulnerability. In this book, readers will find lucid and rigorous descriptions of various risk groups and effective preventive measures that are effective, both in general and with respect to the different risk groups. They will also find work processes to facilitate risk reduction. Summarizing state-of-the-art knowledge and giving guidance for the future, both in terms of preventive efforts and ongoing research, Residential Fire Safety: An Interdisciplinary Approach, is ideal for students, educators, and practitioners of residential fire protection.

Contents:

PartI. Determinants, Mechanisms and Risk Groups.- Chapter1. Fire Mortality from an International Perspective.- Chapter2. Fire Fatalities and Fatal Fires - Risk Factors and Risk Groups.- Chapter3. The Residential Fire Injury Pyramid.- Chapter4. Fire-Related Injury mechanisms.- Chapter5. The evacuation of people with functional limitations.- Chapter6. Fire Safety Surveillance - Theoretical and Practical Challenges.- Chapter7. Implications for Prevention.- PartII. Preventive Measures for Residential Fires.- Chapter8. Smoke Alarms and the Human Response.- Chapter9. Impact of interior doors on residential fire safety.- Chapter10. Prevention of ignition and limitation of fire development in furnishing and home environment.- Chapter11. Active fire protection systems for residential applications.- Chapter13. Residential fire rescues: Building a model of rescue types for supporting the fire service.- Chapter14. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Fire Safety Measures.- Chapter15. Socio-demographic patterns in the effectiveness and prevalence of preventive measures.- PartIII. Implementing Evidence-Based Fire Safety Promotion.- Chapter15. Vision Zero on Fire Safety.- Chapter16. Fire Safety Education Campaigns.- Chapter17. Targeted Interventions towards Risk Groups.- Chapter18. Residential Fires in Metropolitan Areas - Living Conditions and Fire Prevention Targeted.- Chapter19. Interventions towards Risk Groups.- Chapter20. Early responders as a resource for effective response.- Chapter20. Swedish Strategies for Prevention of Residential Fires - the Case of the Swedish Fire Protection Association & the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.- PartIV. Conclusion.- Chapter21. The Road Ahead.