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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2017.31.1.116

A Study on the Actual Condition of the Obstacles on the Apartment Escape Stairs and the Perception of Residents  

Lee, Wonjoo (Department of Ammunitions Maintenance, Daeduk University)
Lee, Chang-Seop (Chungnam Fire Service Headquarter)
Lee, Kiyoung (School of Nano and Materials Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.31, no.1, 2017 , pp. 116-123 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to improve the evacuation stability of residents in apartment fire. For this purpose, the actual condition survey about the obstacles was conducted on 3,056 escape stairs in the 183 apartments. In addition, the questionnaire investigation was carried out a survey targeting the residents of apartments about their experience of fire safety education, perception on safety management of escape stairs, and perception on fire safety. As a result of investigation, we confirmed that the obstacles were formed in the 1,916 escape stairs among the 3,056 escape stairs of the 183 apartments (percent of barricades in escape stairs: 62.70%). Furthermore, it showed that fire safety education experience was found to be 83.10% of subject. The perception on safety management of the subjects in the escape step and the perception on fire safety were $3.84{\pm}0.75%$, and $3.49{\pm}0.61$, respectively. In the results, most of the subjects had a fire safety education and knew how to safety management the escape stairs but, the practice of the safety management action was low. Based on the results in the paper, the policy proposal is that the fire safety education is emphasized to change from the perception to action.
Keywords
Escape stairs; Perception; Evacuation stability; Fire safety education; Fire evacuation drill;
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