A unique training workplace for public service employees, who deal with extensive crisis events, is now being prepared in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has suffered several floods in the recent years, floods are therefore the principal concern, but other events such as dangerous chemical leaks or extensive traffic accidents are taken into account. Despite being inspired by similar workplaces in the neighboring countries, the proposed solution remains unique. The output of this project will be a piece of specialized software, which will constitute a simulation environment over the GIS projects, and a set of workplaces. These workplaces will enable the course participants to be exposed to situations similar to real life situations, which might occur during unusual events. The project is being prepared with the support of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic within a research project concerning public safety called SIMPROKIM -Crisis Management Process Simulator and with the support of the Fire Brigade of the Czech Republic, represented by the Czech Association of Fire Officers. The first stage was focused on tools and methods of crisis management process specification and a solution as to how to create a system, which would support training of the emergency committee members. Business modeling methods were used for the specification of crisis management processes and the processes of the emergency committee member training. Also Unified Software Development Process was used to design a system that will support the emergency committee members training. System requirements were elicited and described in the System Requirements Specification Document, which was passed to a company that was responsible for the project Safety and Security Engineering V 247

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Keeping the smoke layer at a safe height is one of the most important tenability criteria in assessment of evacuation from buildings. The basis of this approach is an accurate approximation of the fire and smoke plume, which is formed above the fire source. The major variables affecting smoke filling are the fire growth rate and enclosure geometry, i.e. the floor area and height. This paper deals with the implementation of a new method for establishing safe available evacuation time based on the fundamental principles of smoke generation and flow into the national fire safety design standards in the Czech and Slovak Republic. Some of these calculation methods have also been included in fire safety engineering ISO standards. The devised method is based on the t-squared fire growth model and correlations for smoke production and air entrainment into the rising plume of smoke. Subsequently, the proposed method is validated against a wide range of benchmark scenarios in the two-zone fire model CFAST. The paper compares the differences, comments on their causes and evaluates the applicability of the new method in both countries. The proposed method is not only compatible with the national fire safety design standards, but also allows for a more precise assessment of life safety without the need for overly complicated calculations.

The vision paper deals with the current project that solves the determination, description, and simulation of crisis management processes, with the aim to create a tool enabling fi rst-rate preparation for the staffers of crisis staffs, safety councils, and integrated rescue system (IRS). This tool will enable the preparation to be performed under conditions maximally similar to those of real situations, including psychological and time factors. In this respect, the paper describes individual tasks of educational process and their phases, means of emergencies selection and the progress of the project phase being in progress at present.

In 2010, the Faculty of Safety Engineering at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava (FBI VŠB-TUO) commenced work on the SIMPROKIM (Simulation of crisis management processes in the system of whole-life education of the integrated rescue system (IRS) units and public administration bodies) project. The SIMPROKIM project falls under the framework of Safety research program, financed by the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic (MI CR), for which two main objectives have been determined: