Fire Science Show
Fire Science Show
Wojciech Wegrzynski
234 - Building a fire safety culture with George Boustras
59 minutes Posted Jan 14, 2026 at 8:00 am.
Setting The Stage: What Is Safety Science
Safety Culture As The Glue
Defining Safety Through Risk
Codes, Performance, And Prevention
Focus Where Engineering Adds Value
Lessons From Major Fires
Models, Common Sense, And Compliance
Tunnels, Behavior, And Real-World Outcomes
Protecting Life Versus Property
Education Over Campaigns
Politics, Payoffs, And Planning Ahead
Holistic Strategies And Culture
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Today we sit down with safety science leader George Boustras - a professor at European University Cyprus, UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Societal Safety in South East Mediterranean and founder of Centre of Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences (CERIDES). With George we try to examine fire engineering from the wider safety lens, exploring why culture—not just compliance—decides outcomes. We unpack a practical definition of safety as managed risk and follow the hard-earned le...