find the environments invaded by
smoke making it very difficult the
search and rescue tasks
we know that the environment
transforms into a labyrinth for both
firefighters as for people who
live there, I had to intervene in
large losses as operator of the
special rescue group as per
example the fire collapse of the
coal mines in turbid river santa
cross where the ambient atmosphere
inside the mine it reached 3 thousand 500
parts per million
a dark place but dangerous gases
and even knowing that with 250 parts per
million carbon monoxide
reached to kill you
also in Cro-Magnon fire and
Mass casualties were not worked
hard to dislodge the
victims stuck in the exits already me
touched live in human misery in his
maximum expression do rc pp for
save a life and have others try
steal the sneakers blast
fire volume in the city of rosario
where it worked for days
removing tons of debris and
concrete to look there in the
Collapsed structures to people
that were missing and here in the
autonomous city of buenos aires in a
apartment house fire on planes
elevated where the place was invaded
smoke the hallways did not see the
palier did not know anything
trying to get to the roof to be able to
ventilate
the building left me with no air in the
respiratory system
It was there that I thought I was dying to
touch can differentiate between
Apartment doors and door
from the terrace and there I found my exit
of emergency
the experience shared with my
colleagues made us define a
dangerous constant in all
incidents that cause casualties
the lack of effective signaling
the evacuation route and the departure of
emergency
I’m ariel oscar pérez bombero
licensed angel insecurity
after 20 years I decided to retire to
why to add my experience and the
knowledge as a professional
why because I wanted to get to
start working in large companies
in the prevention of risks and
accidents what was my basis to be able
get to work as a graduate in
hygiene and equipment safety
Garraham hospital there we set in motion
the emergency brigade with personnel
own
we achieve that the structures of
fire protection complied with the
regulations optimally for both the
structure of endowment of painters as
the fixed establishments
we are the first public hospital in
comply with the evacuation plans and
mock but something was still missing
as for the signage of
emergency
I started to analyze what are the
requirements of current legislation your
visualize their forms and their
real distribution before an accident
there seems to me a point of the hospital
where a lot of people and
own staff and hence I tried
I view any object
point to emergency exits
jover the signage was very
difficult
it’s more almost with my experience not the
I could differentiate and I found a
obstacle obstacle which is the
visual pollution
that visual contamination is typical of
all hospitals and others
establishments where they attend
a lot of people like the hypermarkets
where with posters and signs colors
we mark all and pollute pollute
constantly the visual space but
there again found my way out of
emergency
we started a study of
investigation in the hospital
complex place in the connection of the
guard with the central building with a
survey of three questions that we
would answer about the location
spatial and visualization of
signage
we asked the people visualized
you the emergency signage in this
sector can tell me where the
exit closest to the public road and
the third question could you indicate me
yes here side that faces the avenue brazil
the results gave us a percentage
of total respondents 85%
of people was disoriented
spatially I did not really know about
which side was the building the streets
and 95 percent the people of
sector did not visualize the signage of
hospital emergency has
lots of signage colors
arrows drawings oriented to signal
other kind of things but at the time of
emergency
The important thing is to visualize our
evacuation routes
that’s why the project was to signal in the
floor where we passed 50 over 50 by
a hundred times the view with
total signage
photoluminescent ansyto and refractory to
one and a half meters from each of the
kernels at the edges of the corridor
so that for the people when
enter by repetition and memorization
had an intuitive reflex at the time
to leave but his best virtue is power
visualize yourself even in the presence of
smoke because with today’s regulations that
requires me to two meters high
about the door frames is the first thing
that I cover the smoke
we made a scale model of one of
the nuclei of the hospital for
introduce real smoke so that
could visualize the speed and
nature of these elements within
the structures of the hospital so that
the managers
those responsible for security of the
hospital could see how they reacted
and the evolution of smoke within
structures and also for those
gullible people who do not believe in
computer simulations
the single effect of this experiment
reach to sustain our proposal
we started to place the signage
we worked on that nucleus we put the
the stickers and four months later
we did the same survey again
the results were excellent
we totally invert the percentages
that gave us the pattern we are in the
right way to fight that
dangerous constant that is the lack of
effective signage and that obstacle
visual contamination with
signage that today we have standardized
it is impossible to lack legislation
efficient and materials that respond to
the different scenarios
that’s why we must innovate believe in the photo
luminescence in the signals where the
we can see
efficiently change our route of
evacuation to make them logical by
that my commitment is to work with
those who legislate and normalize for
to be able to introduce these new materials
these new forms of these new
structures so that we can all all
find our emergency exit
thank you very much
me
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