Tactics, objectives, and choices: Building a fire risk index

This work summarises the key points that can be drawn from extensive body of literature associated with fire risk indexing methods. A comprehensive definition is provided and sometimes opaque mechanics are described in detail. Issues arising methods explored, variety terminology this method clarified. It also explored how development operation entangled issues reliable expert elicitation professional competence end user. emerges greater complexity a method, more workings become obfuscated. creates an inherent tension between simplicity its transparency to users – issue developers indices ought address early point.