My question comes back to the disparity between what is achieveable for a "work building" or hotel to a residential building in terms of evacuation timescales.
To me, the 5 whys takes you to responsibility/ownership on the site owner at work, and them practicing and pressing to get evac time down for fire tisk etc - monitored measured etc.
In terms of improving the liklihood for getting out and knowing who is there, the best options would be to have a level of control to understand where we are, which will have to be lead by some form of duty holder.
The acceptability of how long it takes to get people out in the residential environment needs to be closer to work.
How it is achieved, i have suggested based on a workplace's controls - stuff we would have had. (No door fobs though)
Whether they are thought impractical or never work etc, it seems to me something needs to be different, and those are ways and means to assist. By no means would it all be easy, however if i or family lived in such a place, i'd plan to get out in the first batch, and would look to consider the difference between being on lower or upper floors as part of my assessment (If only in case lifts stop working).
In addition if can't do all sprinklers - phase to do stairwell as stage 1, corridors 2 and rooms 3, i know if you're going to do it do it but may have to adopt a phased approach - if only because booking an install may take a while to get right bods as they are going to be busy.
I understand there is very few options for housing people, but would have preferences, as would all others.
Even if it's not perfect could it be better? - re evacs and lists of who is there, surely a regular update would refresh the list and be valuable, if only to confirm details of where to focus future attention or some samples to see where it's good enough.
Also asks people to think about what if and automate in own brain what they will do, logging makes point of doing it/actions required/ targets
Bottom line is if people want things to work they will, if they don't they wont.
Fao mods: tried to not speculate as per previous post rules...
Edited by user 18 June 2017 20:51:48(UTC)
| Reason: added ref to risk based sprinklers, mod comment, cont improvement