Digest 300 Toxic effects of fires
Publication Year
1985
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Many deaths in fires are attributable not to burns and other injuries but to the combined effects of smoke and toxic gases. Modern synthetic polymeric materials are often the cause. Despite the obvious importance of toxic gases, there is currently no widely acceptable way in which their direct effects can be effectively predicted and mitigated. It is, therefore, essential that fire safety practitioners can base their decisions on up-to-date information and so get combustion toxicity, especially the use of small-scale testing procedures, into a true perspective. This is the purpose of this digest.
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