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Risk is the potential for realization of unwanted adverse conditions, considering scenarios and their associated likelihoods and consequences. Specifically, fire risk can be defined as a quantitative or qualitative measure of fire incident loss potential for fire protection engineering applications in event likelihood and aggregate consequences.
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S. Kaplan, B. Garrick, On the quantitative definition of risk. Risk Anal. 1(1), 11–27 (1981)
ISO, ISO 16733-1:2015: Fire Safety Engineering—Selection of Design Fire Scenarios and Design Fires—Part 1: Selection of Design Fire Scenarios (ISO, Geneva, 2015)
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Society of Fire Protection Engineers. (2023). Risk, Fire Risk, and Fire Risk Assessment. In: SFPE Guide to Fire Risk Assessment. The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17700-2_2
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