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PROBLEMS OF FIRE SAFETY OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN BUILDINGS WITH THEIR MASS PRESENCE

Journal: Pozharovzryvobezopastnost/Fire and Explosion Safety (Vol.23, No. 8)

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Page : 37-52

Keywords : people with disabilities; older people; people with reduced mobility; fire; evacuation; rescue; fire zones; lifts.;

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Abstract

The article considers the problems of fire safety of people with disabilities. Nowadays in our country the number of people whose mobility is reduced compared with healthy adult people exceeds 50 millions. Analysis of the statistical data showed that the magnitude of individual fire risk for people officially recognised as disabled in 2013 is 54.5·10–6. Especially hard to ensure the safety of people with limited functions of the organism in their places of mass stay — in-patient health care institutions and social protection. Analysis of case histories and staffing agencies has allowed to establish the number of patients to a particular group of mobility, to identify the number immobile and nontransportable patients. The paper considers the motion parameters of elderly people, capable of independent evacuation. It was found that their motion parameters described previously installed dependence. The peculiarities of salvation immobile and untransportable people were researched. The analytical dependence, allowing to estimate the required number of flights for salvation immobile people different numbers of rescuers. Provides suggestions for organizing the rescue of people using elevators and fire zones.

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