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Safety in numbers
Author(s) -
Gwynne Steven
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00336.x
Subject(s) - computer science , computer security , operations research , genealogy , forensic engineering , history , actuarial science , mathematics , business , engineering
How do we behave in emergencies? If fire breaks out in a building do we act as thinking individuals, or as chaotic panicking automata? Safety officers have to know—and Steven Gwynne says that they lack the data.