A Framework for Fire Safety Management in School Facilities

Abstract

Schools are high-risk type of facilities in fire emergencies. This requires the implementation of safety measures, which comprise administrative and operational efforts to mitigate the occurrence of fire accidents. The review of literature indicated the lack of practical approaches that can be easily adopted for safety management in school facilities. This paper presents the development and implementation of a generic framework for fire safety management in school facilities. A literature review in the domain of fire safety in schools was performed to comprehend various knowledge areas in this context. A generic framework for fire safety management in school facilities was developed. The framework was implemented in a secondary school, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, as a case study, to illustrate its applicability. An action plan was developed to improve the level of fire safety in the school facility, under review. The findings indicated that the framework provides a methodological and systematic approach for assessing the level of fire safety in schools, as well as determine the possible actions for improving the overall safety condition in such facilities. The paper provides a useful focus for practitioners and researchers concerned with fire safety in the educational workplace.

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“…A focused review of the literature, in the past ten years, on fire risk assessment in the built environment has identified several studies that reported on the assessment of fire safety conditions in various types of buildings. Fire risk assessment were carried out to the provision and keep of fire protection systems in schools (Baldassarra, 2015;Han, 2020;Hassanain et al, 2022a), office workplace (Nimlyat et al, 2017;Li et al, 2018;Hassanain et al 2022b), education facilities (Ebenehi et al, 2017;Salaheldin et al, 2021), residential buildings (Xin and Huang, 2013;Leung and Chow, 2016;Hamida and Hassanain, 2019), student housing facilities (Agyekum et al, 2016;Hassanain et al, 2018) and health care facilities (Ebekozien et al, 2020;Jaafar et al, 2021;Salim et al, 2021). Yet, the literature lacked studies that focus on community centers type of facilities.…”

“…A focused review of the literature, in the past ten years, on fire risk assessment in the built environment has identified several studies that reported on the assessment of fire safety conditions in various types of buildings. Fire risk assessment were carried out to the provision and keep of fire protection systems in schools (Baldassarra, 2015; Han, 2020; Hassanain et al. , 2022a), office workplace (Nimlyat et al.…”

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“…For instance, Rafindadi et al (2022) used the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) model to identify five sub-factors for fall-related accidents in construction sited. Studies have also categorised the causes of construction site accidents as management factors (Hamid et al 2019;Al Zarooni et al 2022;Birhane et al 2022;Chan et al 2022;Deng et al 2022;Khanh and Kim 2022;Zeng et al 2022) and unsafe job site conditions (Hassanain et al 2022;Rahman et al 2022;Zermane et al 2022). Furthermore, the causes of construction site accidents are classified as worker-related, which are due to the actions of workforce (Bidhendi et al 2022;Dolez et al 2022;Kim and Kang 2022;Koc et al 2022;Liang et al 2022;Rafindadi et al 2022;Wu et al 2022).…”

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“…The availability of several sorts of combustibles, including chemicals used in science labs, flammable paper documents, wooden furniture, and class decorations, is blamed for this. Additionally, there is little enforcement of fire safety precautions in schools (Hassanain et al, 2022). According to data released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), there were 51.9 thousand fire accidents in Egypt in 2020 as opposed to 50.6 thousand in 2019, this represents a 2.6% rise in disasters (CAPMAS, 2020).…”