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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 Methods available and hazards to be assessed
4 Options and reliability of methods for determining hazard
to life
5 Toxic hazard assessment method using time-concentration
curves for full scale fires: designed to estimate time to
incapacitation for exposed humans
6 The use of small-scale test data for estimating toxic
potency and toxic hazard
7 Application of toxic potency and toxic hazard calculation
methods
Annex A (informative) Sensory irritancy
Bibliography
Figure 1 - Percentage frequency distribution of non-fire CO
deaths
Figure 2 - Hazard analysis for a furniture fire
Table 1 - Comparison of the characteristics of hazard to life
assessment method options
Table 2 - Reported effects of smoke on visibility and behaviour
Table 3 - Irritant concentrations of common fire gases
Table 4 - Lethal exposure doses of irritants contributing to
asphyxia and lung damage
Table 5 - Simplified look up table for solutions to individual
toxic gas FED equations for incapacitating exposure
doses over a 1 min exposure time
Table 6 - Limiting conditions for tenability caused by heat
Table 7 - Lift threat analysis for the first 6 minutes of a
furniture fire
Table 8 - Revised classification of fire types
Table 9 - Currently accepted 30 min LC50 concentrations for
common fire gases
Table 10 - Toxic potency analysis of materials decomposed under
non-flaming oxidative conditions in the NBS cup
furnace
Table 11 - Toxic potency analysis of materials decomposed under
early, well ventilated flaming conditions in the NBS
cup furnace
Table 12 - Toxic potency analysis of materials decomposed less
efficiently under early, well ventilated flaming
conditions in the NBC cup furnace
Table 13 - Approximate lethal exposure doses (LCt50 gm-3min),
and lethal concentrations (LC50 gm-3) for common
materials under different fire conditions
Table A.1 - Mass loss concentrations of thermal decomposition
products predicted to be painfully irritant
(mouse RD50 gm-3)