#fire-risk-assessment

Bow-tie risk diagram for fire — blue fault tree of causes converging into a central flame, and an orange event tree branching outward into five outcomes

📈 Fire Risk Assessment April 18, 2026 · 7 min read

Event Tree vs Fault Tree: Picking the Right Fire Tool

Event tree vs fault tree: one tracks causes backward, the other tracks outcomes forward. Here is how fire engineers pick the right one.

A modern high-bay warehouse at twilight with ESFR sprinkler heads spraying mist over pallet racking — the setting where every sprinkler design mistake eventually plays out

🛡️ Fire Safety Engineering April 18, 2026 · 11 min read

5 Sprinkler Design Mistakes That Cause Catastrophic Fires

The five sprinkler design mistakes that show up again and again in fire loss data — from commodity errors to ESFR clear-zone failures and cold-storage timing.