Safety in numbers |
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| Authors: | Steven Gwynne |
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| Institution: | Senior Scientist at Hughes Associates, Inc. He has worked in the area of people movement for over 10 years, focusing in particular on human behaviour in the event of a fire. His experience includes developing engineering and computational egress models (including working on the EXODUS suite of tools), behavioural models and collecting human behavioural data. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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