New Approaches to Fire Safety Assessment of Personnel during Its Evacuation from Industrial Premises in Case of Fire

In this paper have been presented new approaches to fire safety assessment of personnel during its evacuation from industrial premises. A method for composition of scenarios for a fire break-out and development based on the Ishikawa Diagram, as well as a mathematical model characterizing the process of fire break-out and development have been implemented. A fire safety index for personnel escape routes has been introduced, and models for assessment the probability of personnel evacuation have been used. Have been concerned problematic issues related to humans’ behavioral feature during fire, their moving in case of evacuation inside enclosed and confined spaces, distance of workplaces from escape routes, reliability of emergency voice alarm communication system. An approach for safety assessment of automatic fire extinguishing units containing fire-extinguishing agents which are hazardous to human health has been proposed. Examples for approbation of developments in the process of fire safety assessment for escape routes, and composition of fire in a machinery room of gas transmission provider’s compressor section have been presented.