Industrial Fire Control Concepts: A Practical Guide to Facility Fire Protection

Industrial Fire Control Concepts is a facility fire protection course in a book. For more than sixty years, between 1946 and 2007, Industrial Risk Insurers offered an intensive week-long industrial fire protection course in their Hartford (CT) Loss Prevention Training Center and at other facilities worldwide. Thousands of facility managers, plant engineers, safety supervisors, insurance loss control engineers, government officials, and many others benefitted from the course. Although this course concentrated on fundamental fire protection and fire control concepts, participants often felt like they were drinking from a fire hose. They left the course with a thick binder full of handouts, articles, notes, references, and other information they could immediately use at their facilities. A common refrain from participants was, “Why isn’t all this information available in a book someplace?” In 1988 the first edition of Industrial Fire Control Concepts attempted to fill this need. Recognizing that many individuals responsible for facility fire protection decisions have no formal fire protection training, this third edition continues the mission of providing a foundation in fire protection and fire safety concepts allowing the development and implementation of effective site-specific fire protection and fire control strategies. In this full color, content-rich, heavily illustrated book, you will learn the: • scope of the fire problem and the often-ignored lessons of past industrial fire disasters • basic concepts behind the development and spread of a fire • holistic systems approach to facility fire safety and fire control • operation, application, and limitations of various fire protection systems and features • necessity of a properly arranged fire protection water supply system • management programs necessary for an effective facility fire control program • special fire control concerns of information technology (IT) operations, warehousing and storage, flammable and combustible liquids, and combustible dust The text contains many practical fire safety concepts that you can use immediately. Throughout the text, conversations between the “Wise Old Fire Protection Engineer” and the "Brash Young Fire Protection Engineer" provide valuable information addressing many common fire protection and fire risk management questions, concerns, and misconceptions. Jeffrey Moore, PE, FSFPE, is a licensed fire protection engineer with over forty years of experience in fire protection engineering, fire protection system design, fire code consulting, industrial loss control, and fire and loss investigation. He has also been involved with fire protection education and training for more than thirty-five years developing and teaching training programs for Industrial Risk Insurers, the National Fire Protection Association, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and many other organizations.