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Article: Fire Safety: Finding The Weakest Links
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- Building Operating Management
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Trade Press Publishing Company Apr 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The majority of FIRE-RELATED LOSSES CAN BE PREVENTED if fire protection measures perform as intended in an emergency
Facility executives can improve the fire safety of buildings by understanding both how and why individual systems work, and how and why systems work together.
"The most important thing to help improve fire safety is to understand how all the systems in a building work: The alarms, the means of egress and passive building systems like fire doors and walls and dampers," says Chris Jelenewicz, engineering program manager for the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. "Facility executives must understand how they operate. All of the systems have a common goal and that is to ...