jaue2019-054: Analysis on Both Public Bathhouse Workers’ Awareness of Fire Safety and Evacuation Safety in Case of Fire

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to analyze the public bathhouse workers’ awareness of fire hazard and to evaluate the 
evacuation safety using a simulation of fire and evacuation. The overall awareness of the workers on firefighting 
equipment and evacuation facilities was examined through a questionnaire survey. The simulations of fire and evacuation 
showed that the ASET was 202 seconds while the RSET was 235 seconds, indicating bottleneck occurs as evacuation 
safety was not secured. Hence, in order to reduce the bottlenecks, improvements such as [ALT-1: Installing outdoor stairs] 
[ALT-2: Increasing stair width] [ALT-3: Installing outdoor stairs + Increasing stair width] were suggested through which 
the RSET was shortened significantly within the ASET, thereby securing evacuation safety