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except for a single security guard. Because the guard is posted outside the building
and charged with detecting and reporting a re but not with building evacuation,
the chances that the re would injure or kill the security guard are considered low.
Valuation of a human life is perhaps the toughest of all the quantitative security risk
decision variables. It is an absolutely political and moral nightmare to put a dollar
value on a human life; however, such a value is required if you plan on performing
a cost–benet analysis that involves human life. e statis ...