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High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety

NCJ Number
160112
Author(s)
G Craighead
Date Published
1996
Length
474 pages
Annotation
High-rise buildings pose unique problems for security and safety professionals charged with the responsibility for protecting life and property, and building owners and managers, security directors, fire safety directors, maintenance departments, and contract security firms need to know essential security and safety procedures.
Abstract
High-rise building security and fire-life safety is discussed in 14 chapters. Initial chapters explore what constitutes security and fire-life safety, high-rise building development and utilization, security systems and equipment, fire- life safety systems and equipment, and security and fire-life safety surveys. Subsequent chapters cover computer security, security rules and procedures, security management, and security investigations. Additional chapters deal with building emergencies, building emergency planning, building codes and standards, liaison with law enforcement and fire authorities, and trends in security and fire-life safety issues. References, tables, and figures