Fire, Evacuation and Crowd Safety Blog

Aviation Accident Survival Rates — Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

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: …

Yet another Tragic Nightclub Fire!

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 …

Yet another Nightclub Tragedy — Grief tainted with Anger

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 …

Kiss Nightclub Tragedy — More Information and some Simplified Analysis

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 …

Passenger Airline Safety Briefing

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 …