Fire, Evacuation and Crowd Safety Blog

USA Today recently published (9th August 2013) an interesting story by Mr Gary Stroller concerning commercial aviation accident survival statistics. You can find the story on their web site at: …

Categories: Aircraft Crash , Aircraft Evacuation , Evacuation , Fire , Survivability
Tags: Aircraft Crash , Aircraft Evacuation , Evacuation , Safety , Statistics

Yet another Tragic Nightclub Fire!

January 28, 2013 Prof Ed Galea

Today we hear the news of a tragic nightclub fire in Brazil which has claimed the lives of at least 180 young people, with at least 200 more injured. The fire is reported to have occurred in the early …

Categories: Evacuation , Fire
Tags: Evacuation , Fire , Nightclubs , Safety

The death toll in the Kiss Nightclub fire has risen to 231. It is heart breaking to see so many young faces with promising lives ahead of them snuffed out in seconds. The names of the victims are …

Categories: Evacuation , Fire
Tags: Evacuation , Fire , Nightclubs , Safety

The death toll in the Kiss Nightclub fire has risen to 235. Questions are being raised as to how many people were in the nightclub at the time of the incident. This will become an important issue as …

Categories: Evacuation , Fire
Tags: Evacuation , Evacuation Modelling , Fire , Fire Modelling , Football World Cup , Kiss Nightclub Fire , Nightclubs , Olympics , Panic , Safety

Passenger Airline Safety Briefing

November 13, 2012 Prof Ed Galea

Getting passengers to pay attention and understand the airline safety briefing is always a struggle. I think that the most important information currently conveyed to passengers concerns the brace …

Categories: Aircraft Evacuation , Evacuation
Tags: Aircraft Evacuation , Evacuation , Safety , Safety Briefing