Fire Safety
Institute

Information

Fire safety information is scattered among many sources ranging from manufacturer's literature to scientific libraries to foreign periodicals to shelved government documents. FSI is concerned with making this information available to the fire safety specialist in a form that is usable and which will promote the application of available technology to the reduction of fire losses.

Information services of the Fire Safety Institute cover:

• Development of guides to fire safety literature.
• Compilation of bibliographies and state-of-the-art papers utilizing on-line computer databases.
• Editorial and review services for technical fire safety journals.

Specific ongoing information activities supported by the Fire Safety Institute include:

• Section Editor, Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
• Editorial Board, Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)
• Editor-in-Chief, Fire Technology, the quarterly journal of fire safety science and engineering published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Fire Technology is the foremost-refereed journal in its field, publishing rigorous scientific research dealing with the full range of actual, possible, and potential fire hazards facing humans and the environment today. The audience of readers and contributors comes from the entire international fire safety science and engineering community, both inside and outside of academia, including fire protection professionals, applied scientists, engineers and other design professionals, and technically oriented fire safety practitioners. For more information...

Other contributing information activities of the Fire Safety Institute include:

• Organizing member of inFIRE, International Fire Information and Reference Exchange. inFIRE is a worldwide consortium of libraries with significant collections of fire literature. The focus of inFIRE is on resource sharing between member organizations and the annual inFIRE conference, where presentations on library activities, fire research and other activities provide professional development and networking opportunities.
• Authoring of four chapters in the NFPA Fire Protection Handbook. 
• Technical Expertise for Guideline, a business research provider.
• Editor of IAFSS Newsletter