Fire as an Accident

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Fire-safety design and fire-safety management over time are complex activities that require the knowledge and awareness of the stakeholders about the fire scenarios that may arise and develop according to the fire threats associated with their assets. Each application context is characterised by clearly different fire risks, associated with a series of peculiarities of the domain of interest which find their expression in the development of more or less complex scenarios as well as being determined, in their evolution, by the strategy adopted and its partial/complete success. Fire and explosion scenarios in the civil construction sector are particularly different from those observed in the industrial sector, especially in the presence of hazardous substances. In the industrial sphere, the same severity can lead to major accidents in many countries regulated by specific regulations. In Chapter Unavailable , an attempt is made to briefly illustrate the types of accident scenarios in the industrial and civil sectors.