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Little is known about the effects and effectiveness of different methods for evacuation and firefighting against smoke propagation. The Fire Service Academy of the Institute for Safety (IFV) have conducted during two weeks in the summer 2019 smoke propagation experiments in a residential building, located in the town Oudewater in the Netherlands. Nineteen experiments have…

On November the 21th of November the Furniture Fire Safety Event was organised as part of the European Fire Safety Week in Brussel. The presentations of this meeting are now available. Download Presentations –> Furniture event Final presentation

European fire services recommendations on test methods 10 questions and answers about the study and the results Q&A Fire safety of upholstered furniture and mattresses

In 2016 the Institute for Safety and a retailer started a co-operation with the purpose to initiate a new approach towards product requirements for upholstered furniture and mattresses. Those requirements should improve consumer safety significantly taking into account current living situations and current research on domestic fire safety. The overall goal is to improve domestic…

In den vergangenen zwei Jahren hat die Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations (FEU) die Notwendigkeit einer Erhöhung der Brandsicherheit von Möbeln1 und Matratzen in europäischen Wohnungen untersucht. In diesem Artikel werden der Prozess und die Ergebnisse dieses Projekts näher erläutert. Feuerwehrstudie soll Brandsicherheit von Möbeln erhöhen

L’étude de la FEU fournit des informations et des recommandations concernant les méthodes d’essais pour le mobilier rembourré et les matelas Ces deux dernières années, la Federation of the European Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations (FEU) a réalisé une étude concernât la nécessité d’accroître la sécurité incendie des meubles1 et des matelas…

Over the past two years, the Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations (FEU) has studied the need to increase the fire safety of furniture and mattresses in homes in Europe and the options for how to achieve this. This article provides further details about this process and the results of this project. Fire-study…

Onderzoek van de Europese brandweervereniging FEU levert input en adviezen voor testmethodes van meubels en matrassen. De afgelopen twee jaar is er door de Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations (FEU) onderzoek gedaan naar de noodzaak van het vergroten van de brandveiligheid van meubels[1] en matrassen in woningen in Europa en manieren om…

This is the final report of the Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations (FEU). The FEU commissioned a working group to conduct research and draft an opinion on a set of test methods that the fire departments in Europe believe necessary to ensure that fires involving furniture in domestic fires affect the survivability…

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