The management of building fire safety towards the sustainability of Malaysian public universities

Ebenehi, Ibrahim Yakubu; Mohamed, Sulzakimin; Sarpin, Norliana; Masrom, Md. Asrul Nasid; Zainal, Rozlin; Azmi, Mohd Azham

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/271/1/012034

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“…On the contrary, a well-designed building, not operated by an efficient firefighting team, is more prone to have fire safety issues. 24 As in the present case scenario, an active and alert firefighting team could douse a fire quickly, thereby preventing it from spreading to adjoining operating rooms and minimizing the loss of costly equipment.…”

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Response to a Fire Incident in the Operation Room: A Cautionary Tale

Sharma

Kumar

Koushal

2019

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Health care facilities are always seen as places of haven and protection for managing external incidents, but situations become difficult and challenging when such facilities themselves are affected by internal hazards. Such incidents are arguably more disruptive than external incidents, because patients are dependent on supportive measures and are neither in position to respond to such crisis situation nor do they know how to respond. Operating room fires are rare but potentially catastrophic, involving loss of costly resources and possibly lives. This case report details a true operating room fire incident in an emergency operating room and details the real-life challenges encountered by operating room staff in preserving both life and property. As a result of this work, precautionary measures may be implemented to mitigate such incidents. Careful coordination, continuous training, and fire drill exercises can improve the overall outcomes and minimize the possibility of these potentially fatal problems, thereby making a safer health care environment for every worker and patient.

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Response to a Fire Incident in the Operation Room: A Cautionary Tale

Sharma

Kumar

Koushal

2019

Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…A review of the relevant literature (Meacham, 1999; Subramaniam, 2004; Cullen et al , 2015; Hassanain and Mudhei, 2006; Flynn, 2009; Marincioni and Fraboni, 2012; Nadzim and Taib, 2014; Campbell, 2017; Ebenehi et al , 2017) and applicable fire codes and standards (DSFRS, 2018; IBC, 2018; IFC, 2018; NFPA 10, 2018; NFPA 101, 2018; NFPA 80, 2019; NFPA 70, 2020) in the domain of fire prevention in educational facilities was carried out. This activity served to comprehend the various sources of fire hazards in educational facilities and the required prevention measures to eliminate their occurrence.…”

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“…In fact, students' behavior and response to fire emergency situations might be inefficient, due to lack of awareness about life safety measures (Subramaniam, 2004). Many educational facilities encounter poor obligation to fire safety prevention measures, which implies that they are designed and operated in a hazardous condition (Ebenehi et al , 2017; Marincioni and Fraboni, 2012). Thus, comprehensive fire safety assessments should be adequately and frequently performed in these facilities (Kodur et al , 2020; Meacham, 1999; Tillander, 2004).…”

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A code-compliance assessment tool for fire prevention measures in educational facilities

Salaheldin

Hassanain

Hamida

et al. 2021

IJES

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PurposeThis research presents the applicable international fire code requirements for educational facilities, in a comprehensive manner, and the findings of a case study to assess the level of compliance with these requirements.Design/methodology/approachA review of literature, fire codes and standards was conducted to identify the various sources of fire hazards in educational facilities and the required prevention measures. Accordingly, a code-compliance worksheet for assessing the fire prevention measures was developed. The worksheet included 34 prevention measures. It was implemented in a pharmacy college building, as a case study, to assess the compliance level with the code requirements. Recommendations were developed to improve the level of fire prevention in the case study facility.FindingsThe implemented worksheet facilitated identifying all the shortcomings in the prevention measures, in a methodological manner. These shortcomings included exceeded travel distance, absence of assembly point, inactive record keeping of fire inspection and maintenance works, deterioration of some extension cords and switches, alteration of some emergency doors, storage of combustibles in some electrical rooms and obstructions of the fire apparatus access road.Practical implicationsThe research provides an assessment tool for fire prevention in educational facilities, which can be used by professionals for a code-compliant inspection. The findings of the case study as an example serve to expand the inspectors' observational significance while reducing subjectivity.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the educational facilities' context of health and safety domain in the literature. The research classifies the required fire prevention measures for an educational facility, according to the international applicable codes and standards. The case study demonstrates an applicable methodology for assessing the fire prevention measures and requirements.

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“…According to Rahad(2015), revealed that, occupants of office buildings are usually exposed to psychological problems, such as fear of isolation in personalized space, causing loneliness that could lead to depression, stress, anxiety, and lowering interest in community affairs concerning fire risk inclusive. In a fire, disaster involving an office building (Ebenechi, 2017), the researchers highlighted that the fire risk to occupant's life is quite huge with respects to an office building, which are mostly low-rise buildings. This could be attributed to multiple floors in most of the buildings that generally created an increasing effect, requiring a more significant number of people traveling via vertical distances on the stair.…”

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Fire Safety Protection and Prevention Measures in Nigeria Office Buildings

Alao¹,

Yahya²,

Mohmood³

et al. 2020

IJMH

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ffice buildings are generally known to have high-rise of fire due to its complexity, combustible materials, and its economic value. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the fire safety protection and prevention system installed in six randomly selected office buildings. The method adopted in achieving the study objective includes literature review, interview, and physical inspection/observation. Thus, a multiattribute evaluation approach was adopted to establish adequate, inadequate, and no fire safety systems, used the pre-designed checklist from NFPA, 2008, NBC, 2006, and NFSC, 2013. The analysis of the result shows that some of the fire safety systems are mainly provided in the buildings. Thus, inadequate maintenance affect their performance greatly; the result shows that fire extinguisher has the highest performance among the fire safety system provided with 66.6% of the buildings have adequate, good working condition, properly position, etc., while 33.4% of the building does not have adequate fire extinguisher in term of performance, are not maintenance the system display lack in term of total compliance to the standard fire regulation. The results of the other systems were as follows: place of safety (33.4%); inadequate, (66.4%) no fire safety system, (0.00%) adequate, Escape Stair (0.00%), adequate, (33.4%) inadequate, (66.6%), no fire safety system, Fire Door (17%) adequate, (83%) inadequate (0.00%) no fire safety system, Travel distance (0.00%) adequate, (83%) inadequate, (17%) no fire system, Emergency lighting (0.00%) adequate, (100%) inadequate, (0.00%) no fire safety system, Fire Alarm (16.6%) adequate (66.6%) inadequate, (16.6%) no fire safety system. The firefighters access (0.00%) adequate, (100%) inadequate, (0.00%) no fire safety system, Artificial lighting (17%) adequate, (83%) inadequate and (0.00%) no fire safety system. Judging from the findings, the study recommended that, regular maintenance of fire safety system should be done to enhance effective functionality of the systems, effective fire safety management system should be developed to enhance continuous functions of the installed system and construction of any office building should be made to comply strictly with existing fire safety regulation, standard, and code.

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The management of building fire safety towards the sustainability of Malaysian public universities

Cited by 19 publications

References 20 publications

Response to a Fire Incident in the Operation Room: A Cautionary Tale

Response to a Fire Incident in the Operation Room: A Cautionary Tale

A code-compliance assessment tool for fire prevention measures in educational facilities

Fire Safety Protection and Prevention Measures in Nigeria Office Buildings

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