Figure 3.
The diagram illustrates the process of building fire risk management across three phases. The left section, titled performance-based fire risk management recommendations for the pre-building fire phase, lists six proactive strategies: inherent safety and prevention, early detection and warning, fire control, emergency response, risk assessment and management, and addressing vulnerabilities while enhancing capacity. These feed into the central section, which details reactive building fire management during and after the fire phase. It highlights in-house responses including fire extinguishing, mitigating exposure, and evacuating occupants, as well as external firefighting and rescue efforts. These actions influence the final section on the right, representing building fire risk reduction. The outcomes include preventing and mitigating fires, minimizing casualties, reducing structural damage and asset loss, and lessening environmental and economic impacts.Conceptual diagram of PBFRM
Source: Authors’ own work