Evacuation components, strategies and alarms

Question 1

Name some evacuation components

Answer 1

Stairs
Occupant evacuation elevators
Refuge floors

Question 2

Name some egress strategies

Answer 2

Total evac
Phased evac
Defend-in-place
Delayed evac

Question 3

Describe the workflow of how to choose egress strategy

Answer 3

Type of scenarios
Building features
Type of population
Egresscomponents
Talk to designers and engineers
Define eg strat

Question 4

Name some evacuation alarms

Answer 4

Voice alarms
Signals and sirens

Question 5

When it comes to voice alarms; is it better to not give to much information or to give more information about the cause of the alarm?

Answer 5

Give more information
If information is restricted it results in it being difficult to make informed decisions.
More information = quicker response.