Science Advisory Committee: Your Think TankWho are we?What are we doing for you?What are emerging issues

important to SFMs?How can you better use our

services?

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Science Advisory Committee• We are your direct science and

technology resource• We identify and evaluate

scientific and technical issues important to NASFM

• We assist NASFM Board in taking positions and making decisions

• We volunteer time and expertise • We are accessible to State Fire

Marshals

SAC MembersGordon Damant, Damant & Associates

Roy Deppa, US Consumer Product Safety Commission (ret.)

Shannon Frattaroli, Johns Hopkins University

Anthony Hamins, NIST

David J. Icove, University of Tennessee

Kal Kooner, Intertek

Steve Spivak, University of Maryland (ret.)

SAC Working Priorities Include…

• Upholstered furniture fire resistance• Building fire safety and security• Effectiveness of smoke alarm

technologies• Fire resistance of clothing• Human behavior and emergencies• Health and environmental effects of fire

and fire retardants• Identification of emerging hazards… NASFM Board sets the agenda

Some Emerging Science and Technology Issues for SFMsExploring Implications of the Innocence

Project: Where Is the Fire Science?Investigating Firefighter Deaths and

InjuriesUpdating SAC/NASFM Resource List

on Fire Testing Lab AccreditationImplementing Burn Injury and Convicted

Arsonist Reporting Laws

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Some Emerging Science and Technology Issues for SFMsLoss Histories involving Corrugated

Stainless Steel TubingMeasuring the Impact of Residential

Fire SprinklersRevisiting Smoke Alarm Battery Life

Issues

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Rethinking SAC Deliverables

Briefing papersStatus reportsBest practices Identification of emerging issuesPresentation of cutting-edge

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