1. European Fire Safety Alliance Fire safety in the domestic area challenges in the next years
17th EFA Rpundtable
Brussels, 30th March 2017
European Fire Safety Alliance
René Hagen, professor of Fire Safety

2. Topics European Fire Safety Alliance Fire safety challenges
Fire safety challenges in the domestic area
Fire safety targets in the domestic area

3. European Fire Safety Alliance (EFSA) Aims
Campaign for better regulation in areas that improve home fire safety at a national and European level;
Be an authority on fire risk built on a strong statistical evidence base;
Focus on areas of greatest fire risk and the people most vulnerable to accidental fires;
Support the fire service so they can be actively involved in reducing the risk from fire;
Develop and nurture a fire professional network that will be seen as an area of expertise by policy makers and practitioners.

4. European Fire Safety Alliance (EFSA) Objectives 2017
Deliver effective home fire safety information and concerns through all social media
Support and encourage research, studies and reports that highlight the dangers from fire in the home and support their widespread availability
Deliver strong consistent messages on home fire safety by respected fire professionals through presentations and lectures
Directly influence policy makers at national and EU level regarding measures to reduce the risk
Recognising that the contents of a home are by far the major contributor to fire development and the production of toxic gases that cause death and injury, the FSP will campaign for safer furniture
Grow, nurture and sustain and strong professional fire network that supports improvements in fire safety, with regular stakeholder meetings

5. Fire safety challenges
Major fires in industrial buildings and warehouses
Fatal fires in homes
In the past: fire and fire spread were the main problem
In the future: smoke and smoke spread is the main problem
Smoke travels further than fire
Smoke is no longer a combustion product but fire load

6. Basis for assessing the challenges (translated with financial support of EFSA)

7. Fire safety challenges in the domestic area
Ageing
Refugees / multicultural society
Climate neutral houses
New forms of energy
Lack of statistics

8. Fire safety targets in the domestic area
Fire safety education
Fire safe upholstered furniture and matresses
Improve effectiveness of smoke detectors
Supporting with statistics

9. Fire safety education
Education is needed for children, youth, elderly and immigrants
The effectiveness of community fire safety activities should be measured
EFSA is chair and sponsor of the 4th International Safety Education Seminar 2017 (June 7 and 8 Arnhem, Netherlands)

10. Fire safety education - seminar
With speakers from: Netherlands United Kingdom Germany Denmark Belgium Iceland Finland

11. Fire safe upholstered furniture and mattresses
Fire risks upholstered furniture
Flame retardants
Changes in standards
Innovative solutions
Recommendations by FEU (with contribution of EFSA)
First mover

12. Fire safe upholstered furniture and mattresses – impression tests
Temperature
Oxygen
Carbon monoxide
Heat radiation
Smoke spread
Fire spread
Object
Time
Heat release rate

13. Test 1 – foto impression

14. Test 3 – foto impression

15. Fire safe upholstered furniture and mattresses

16. Improve effectiveness of smoke detectors
Current location, noise level and frequency is (no longer) effective
75% smoke detectors present, 45% work and 35% on the proper location
Noise level of 65 dB to 75 dB
Frequency of 3100 Hz to 520 Hz
Location of corridors etc to living room
and bedrooms
EFSA plans to translate the report

17. European fire statistics
There is no (comparable) European fire statistcs
EFSA start this year bottom-up collecting fire statistics of fatal domestic fatal
The base is the Dutch annual reoort on fatal domestic fires

18. European fire statistics
Fire characteristics
cause, object end room of origin, times of existing, alarming and responding, fire spread
Building characteristics
type of dwelling, year of built, ownership, influence of building materials and construction
Human characteristics
Living situation, where victims were and found, people characteristics, cause of death