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The costs and benefits of smoke alarms in Canadian houses / by A.T. Hansen and R.E. Platts, Scanada Consultants Limited.: NH18-1/392-1990E-PDF

“The study was intended to establish the effectiveness of smoke alarms, evaluate the costs and benefits of extending their use to houses that do not currently have them, and consider ways of improving their dependability in use. The study investigated and analyzed Canadian and American fire records from 1980 to present. The study concludes that smoke alarms are saving about 26 lives per year per million new houses at very small or nil cost per life saved. The report also concludes that the opportunity to extend smoke alarm protection to the 18% portion of Canadian houses still without smoke alarms and to ensure that the protection is maintained in other houses is one of the greatest life-saving and cost-saving opportunities open to society"--p. [2] of cov.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Project Implementation Division.
  • Scanada Consultants Limited.
TitleThe costs and benefits of smoke alarms in Canadian houses / by A.T. Hansen and R.E. Platts, Scanada Consultants Limited.
Variant title
  • Analysis of the costs and benefits of installing fire sprinklers in houses : phase II
Series title
  • Research report
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Cover title.
  • "Report for Jacques Rousseau, Project Implementation Division, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation."
  • "Ottawa, 1 March, 1990."
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Isolating the effect of smoke alarms in improving fire safety -- Smoke alarm usage and concurrent house fire data -- Fire fatalities per reported fire and per house year -- Effect of extending smoke alarm use to still-unprotected houses -- Injury rates and smoke alarm usage -- Property losses and smoke alarm usage -- Other savings -- Smoke alarms in new houses -- Improving the effectiveness of smoke alarms -- Cost of installing and maintaining smoke alarms -- Summary and Conclusions -- app. A. Calculation of the effect of smoke alarms on house safety.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, [1990]
Author / Contributor
  • Hansen, A. T.
  • Platts, R. E.
Description2, 30, [19] p.
Catalogue number
  • NH18-1/392-1990E-PDF
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