ISO/TR 16738:2009旨在向设计师、监管机构和消防安全专业人员提供与消防安全工程设计生命安全方面评估相关的疏散策略可用工程方法的信息。介绍了火灾紧急情况下乘员行为，尤其是逃生行为的评估、量化和管理信息。 ISO/TR 16738:2009阐述了生命安全设计基本原则的基础参数，并提供了确定建筑物占用者位置和条件所需的过程、评估和计算信息。 ISO/TR 16738:2009提供了在设计环境中量化人员疏散行为不同方面的方法信息。本标准旨在与ISO/TR 13387及相关指导文件和标准的部分一起使用。这些信息提供了执行生命安全评估时有用的一些信息，以及将生命安全评估结果纳入消防安全工程设计更广泛方面的方法。 ISO/TR 16738:2009未涉及紧急疏散中电梯的使用。

ISO/TR 16738:2009 is intended to provide information to designers, regulators and fire safety professionals on the engineering methods available for evacuation strategies in relation to the evaluation of life safety aspects of a fire safety engineering design. Information is presented on the evaluation, quantification and management of occupant behaviour, particularly escape behaviour, during a fire emergency. ISO/TR 16738:2009 addresses the parameters that underlie the basic principles of designing for life safety and provides information on the processes, assessments and calculations necessary to determine the location and condition of the occupants of the building, with respect to time. ISO/TR 16738:2009 provides information on methods for the quantification of the different aspects of human evacuation behaviour in a design context. It is intended for use together with the parts of ISO/TR 13387 and associated guidance documents and standards. These provide some of the information useful in performing a life safety evaluation and a means for incorporating the results of the life safety evaluation into the wider aspects of a fire safety engineering design. The use of lifts (elevators) in emergency evacuations is not dealt with in ISO/TR 16738:2009.