<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?Xpress productLine="abcb-glossentry" ?><abcb-glossentry xmlns:xt="urn:xpressauthor:trackchanges" id="_887de0c1-bac2-4984-b85e-0fbe222d04e5" outputclass="abcb-glossentry"><glossterm id="_b4db470b-50b9-4fdf-b7cf-27dcfaae9d32">Fire safety engineering</glossterm><glossdef outputclass="glossdef"><p>Application of engineering principles, rules and <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1264_2.2.0.xml#_1913e927-f74b-4892-bfc1-18eb299f184b" id="_3d73af32-f316-4b68-a394-c380c227736e" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">expert judgement</xref> based on a scientific appreciation of the fire phenomenon, often using specific <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1241_1.0.0.xml#_7081833d-1b8f-4583-8988-aaf1fb70801a" id="_78d6a700-bbec-450c-b034-e10d5703513a" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">design scenario</xref>, of the effects of fire and of the reaction and behaviour of people in order to—</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li>save life, protect property and preserve the environment and heritage from destructive fire; and</li><li>quantify the hazards and risk of fire and its effects; and</li><li>mitigate fire damage by proper design, construction, arrangement and use of buildings, materials, structures, industrial processes and transportation systems; and</li><li>evaluate analytically the optimum protective and preventive measures, including design, installation and maintenance of active and passive fire and life safety systems, necessary to limit, within prescribed levels, the consequences of fire.</li></ol></glossdef></abcb-glossentry>