Abstract
The purpose of this study is to propose a method to estimate the quantitative life risk of patients in case of hospital fires. In this method, life risk is defined for each room of the hospital as the expected times per unit time for a patient to be trapped by smoke. This method has been applied to some existing hospitals, and the results have proven to be useful in judging fire safety design of a hospital.
© 1989 Center for Fire Science and Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
