Aplicação do método simplificado de avaliação do risco de incêndio "meseri" em escola do munícipio de Lajeado-RS

Abstract

After so many tragedies involving fire have occurred in history, fire prevention and protection has become essential over the years, since it is important to maintain the integrity of human life and protection over it, not having loss of life in such accidents. The importance of fire safety meant that methods and techniques were applied in buildings, in order to identify possible causes of fire at the site, and to prevent accidents like this from happening. For this reason, the Simplified Fire Risk Assessment Method (Método Simplificado de Evaluación del Riesgo de Incendio), or MESERI Method, was developed in 1978, being directed to low and medium risk commercial and industrial buildings with properties homogeneous constructions, but which nowadays has already been applied in the most diverse types of construction. Therefore, the present work aims to apply the methodology, adapting it to a public school in the city of Lajeado-RS, aimed at elementary school and which is due to the flow of approximately 445 people who transit daily inside the institution, where many of these people do not have knowledge and experience in the area of fire safety, being vulnerable to risk. The application of the MESERI Method has the general objective of evaluating the degree of fire risk in the school, where the generating and aggravating factors and the fire protection and reduction factors were analyzed, classifying the parameters through scores that are established by the method, performing The Fire Risk Calculation is then carried out through a mathematical equation. As the study site has a main building and a multi-sport gym and there is no connection between the buildings, the evaluation was carried out in both locations, where the main building was classified as “BAD RISK” and the gymnasium considered as “GOOD RISK”. The result was mainly due to the material stored on site, the parameters aimed at the constructive elements and the lack of some fire protection and reduction factors.