Abstract: The safety risk of high-rise buildings is an important influencing factor in social emergency management.In practice, there are common problems such as failure of emergency prevention, passive intervention, and poor effect. Based on the analysis of its security significance, this paper sorts out the safety risks from the perspective of types, cycles, and systems through field research, bibliometrics, content analysis. In order to respond to concerns such as one-sided risk perception, structural imbalance of research, theoretical basis shift and post-focus, some main relationships that need to be dealt with in the high-rise building emergency management system under complex risk are put forward through tracing the research tradition, logic and trends of high-rise building emergency management.

Key words: fire safety, high-rise buildings, safety risks, risk management, emergency management