Fire Risk Assessment in Healthcare Settings: Application of FMEA Combined with Multi‐Criteria Decision Making Methods

Table 1

Linguistic terms to determine the significance of each criterion based on intuitionistic fuzzy numbers [49].

Verbal expressions	Score
Equally important	1	0.02	0.18	0.80
Intermediate	2	0.06	0.23	0.70
Moderately more important	3	0.13	0.27	0.60
Intermediate	4	0.22	0.28	0.50
Strongly more important	5	0.33	0.27	0.40
Intermediate	6	0.47	0.23	0.30
Very strong important	7	0.62	0.18	0.20
Intermediate	8	0.80	0.10	0.10
Extremely more important	9	1.00	0.00	0.00
Scale	1/2	0.23	0.06	0.7
	1/3	0.27	0.13	0.6
	1/4	0.28	0.22	0.5
	1/5	0.27	0.33	0.4
	1/6	0.23	0.47	0.3
	1/7	0.18	0.62	0.2
	1/8	0.10	0.80	0.1
	1/9	0.00	1.00	0.00

μ: degree of membership; : degree of nonmembership; : degree of doubt.