Research was conducted on factors influencing fire safety in Brazil and how implementation of a national fire incident reporting system could help. Review of fire incident reporting systems from the United States, United Kingdom, Finland, Singapore, and Hong Kong revealed several attributes, which if implemented, could help improve the fire problem in Brazil. However, research suggests that several other factors need to be addressed first, including the challenges associated with favelas, fire safety culture, fire regulations and fire service resources.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Imperiali, Marissa Ann
• Francisco, Jeremy Paul

Subject

• Security
• Infrastructure
• Well-Being
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031112-202605

Keyword

• Fire prevention

Advisor

• Meacham, Brian Jay

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-03-11

Location

• Campinas

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-07-20