DescriptionWhen registering on line, please use discount code SCS07 and receive 50% off the $199.00 registration fee!
Smoke from building fires can harm and even kill you. Building products and building contents are increasingly made from petroleum and other potentially hazardous materials. You, as a first responder, health official or concerned citizen, need to know more about smoke to protect yourself and citizens.
UL will be hosting an upcoming seminar as a means to build upon the recently released UL-Fire Protection Research Foundation Smoke Characterization Project. Through a partnership with the life safety industry, UL conducted ground-breaking research studies on fire and smoke and in particular the particles and gases that make up smoke. The assembled team of scientists and engineers completed their first phase of research, which includes informative insights into the hazards of smoke from home and office fires. This research also investigated the responsiveness of different kinds of smoke alarms in a scientific laboratory controlled test.
UL and its special guests will share this knowledge with you in a 2-day seminar so that you can understand the deadly hazards that you face when confronted with a smoke emergency situation, both during and after a fire event. The knowledge attendees will gain from this seminar will help to evaluate fire scenes, fire fighting and overhaul approaches, refurbishing burned structures, and even issues around reoccupying a building impacted by fire, helping to make fire events overall safer for everyone involved.
Additionally, this seminar will provide participants opportunities to discuss findings with experts and learn about advances in smoke characterization and smoke alarm technology. It will enable participants to get to know the science experts, and spend time in discussion with their peers and other researchers that have a common interest in fire safety. Firefighters, fire marshals, training officers, fire chiefs, health officials, arson investigators and many more will benefit immediately from the knowledge gained at this seminar.
Bringing together experts under one roof and discussing and interpreting the research results, this seminar will cover:
- The current state of smoke measurement technology
- Field experience with smoke alarms and smoke detectors
- Human response to smoke conditions
- New engineering trends in smoke alarm designs
- Changes in test standards
- Codes activities such as NFPA 72
Upon completion of this seminar you will learn:
- Common life threatening gases and particles found in smoke, during and after a fire
- How smoke alarms respond to fire and smoke “signatures”
- Current issues related to smoke alarm operations
- New trends in fire and smoke detection technology
- Potential changes to standards and code of practice
In closing, smoke from building fires, even well after they are struck out, can harm you or even kill you. Sign up today for this knowledge sharing seminar that sheds new light on smoke and its construction, and what you need to do to protect yourself and those you are responsible for in your work and in your life.
When booking your reservations at the hotel, please mention the block of rooms for the "Smoke Characteristic" seminar and that will get you the $169/night rate.
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Preliminary schedule of events:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
8:30 - 9:00
Introductions
Chris Hasbrook, UL
9:00 - 9:45
Keynote: The Fire and Smoke Continuum
J. Thomas Chapin, UL
9:45 - 10:25
Fire-related Injury: Risk Factors, Risk Groups and Prevention Measures
Christine Branche, CDC
10:25 - 10:40
Break
10:40 - 11:20
Field Experience of Smoke Alarms
John Hall, NFPA
11:20 - 12:00
Basics of Fire Smoke
Pravin Gandhi, UL
12:00 - 12:30
Panel Discussion
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 4:30
Tour of UL and Fire and Smoke Demonstration
Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:00 - 9:45
Keynote: New approaches to Fire and Smoke Alarm: Tenability Smoke Detector
Tom Cleary, NIST
9:45 - 10:25
Multi-Sensor Fire and Smoke Detector
James Milke, UMD
10:25 - 10:40
Break
10:40 - 11:20
Improvements in Standards
Thomas Fabian, UL
11:20 - 12:00
Trends in Codes (NFPA 72)
Paul Patty, UL
12:00 - 12:30
Panel Discussion
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
Panel Discussion: Putting Science and Engineering to Practice and Setting Priorities
3:30 - 3:35
Closing Remarks
Chris Hasbrook, UL |