A Study on the Analysis of Cause Investigation of Fire and Safety Countermeasures of Elderly Facilities

고령자시설 화재안전을 위한 화재원인조사 및 안전대책 방안에 관한 연구

  • 진승현 (호서대학교 소방방재학과) ;
  • 이병흔 (호서대학교 소방방재학과) ;
  • 구태윤 (호서대학교 소방방재학과) ;
  • 권영진 (호서대학교 소방방재학과)
  • Published : 2017.05.17

Abstract

Recently, South Korea is reaching aged society through ageing society. Accordingly, facility related to aged is increased consistently because of effort to improve the welfare of the elderly through elderly long term care insurance in 2008. however, the number of fires in the elderly facilities is increasing rapidly too. It is becoming bigger and higher and the characteristics of person who is unable to afford are mostly having difficult evacuation. so fire safety guildelines are urgently needed but korea research is insufficient. In this study, we propose a fire scenario through investigation of fire causes for fire safety guideline development of elderly facility, and describe to the fire safety countermeasure.

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