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The present study was aimed at investigating road users’ perceptions and behaviors in case of a fire in a tunnel. It is grounded on the idea that in order to effectively prevent accidents and fires in tunnels, it may be useful to take tunnel users’ beliefs, representations, and coping strategies into account [Kouabenan, D.R., 1998. Beliefs and the perception of risks and accidents. Risk Analysis,...
The main purpose of this work consisted in comparing the risk perception of emergency survivors and firefighters regarding fires in domestic and public settings, since specific research on the perception of fire risks is scarce. The sample, recruited in the context of the BeSeCu study, comprised a total of 3446 subjects (survivors: n=747; firefighters: n=2699) from seven European countries: Germany,...
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