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Panel: life safety options for people with disabilities – how far have we come?
Author(s) -
Fahy Rita
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.2300
Subject(s) - demographics , panel discussion , fire safety , occupational safety and health , focus group , engineering , business , forensic engineering , psychology , gerontology , environmental health , medicine , marketing , risk analysis (engineering) , sociology , advertising , demography , pathology
Summary A panel discussion considered life safety options for people with disabilities and their evacuation challenges, with a particular focus on buildings, such as small care facilities, group homes and nursing homes. Questions to be discussed included consideration of how well occupants in those types of facilities have fared in actual fires, and how well current regulations protect them. The panelists focused on three specific areas – the implications of changing demographics on code development; the factors important in fire safety in small care facilities; and real experiences and future implications for mixed‐ability evacuation. This paper details the presentations and the open discussion that followed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.