A pattern of fire risk assessment and emergency management in educational center laboratories

Fire is one of the most important crises in educational centers especially in laboratories. This work tried to develop a quantitative risk assessment model based on empirical data in an educational center, Azad University, Sciences and Research Branch. The more important issues were fuel and chemical leakage, high pressure reservoirs, hardware failure and ignition sources as well as the human errors in educational center. Building plan, occupancy and evacuation procedure, ability of hazard detection, safety measure, are very important in fire emergency condition. All of these parameters were used as input to the pattern of fire risk assessment. Offering a model based on analytical hierarchy process and failure mode and effect analysis logic, the current study aims to determine the factors influencing the fire risk of an education center. Testing the conceptual model for fire risk assessment was performed in the proposed site. The results showed that the laboratories and chemical warehouses could be raised the level of fire risk in an educational building. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.