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Adequate Fire Safety Training for the Occupants Knowledge and Awareness of Fire Safety

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  • The level of fire safety awareness and knowledge among the building occupants, owners, and manager, can help in enhances the safety of the building and its environment (Agyekum, Ayarkwu, & Ayarkwa, 2016)

  • Analysis In order to answers the questions from this study and attained the research purpose, the study made used of IBM-SPSS and AMOS software for the data analysis the table (1), illustrate the demographic information’s of the participants and most of which are Building Managers and Fire Safety Practitioners selected from the study areas

  • The finding from this study are in agreement with the results of a study by Nachtigall (2017), who established that managers of building needed improvements in fire safety training program to enhances their competence for the achievement of fire safety objectives in building

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Summary

Introduction

The level of fire safety awareness and knowledge among the building occupants, owners, and manager, can help in enhances the safety of the building and its environment (Agyekum, Ayarkwu, & Ayarkwa, 2016). Fire disasters cause injured killed, and destruction to the building occupants and direct property damage to the building owners or developers (A, 1990). The possibility of fire safety in the building and the level of damages fire can cause is mostly dependent on the level of the occupant's knowledge, and awareness of fire safety measure and as well as the level of useful fire safety management (FPA, 2009) The level of modern building and the method of construction with the recent technology and facilities lead to concerned about getting everybody involved in the safety of building, contents, and occupants in terms of fire (Ferrontato & Torretta, 2019). Modern building has become more complicated; a more holistic approach to building management is required in order to tackle the complexities and innovation that exist in modern building facilities (Howarth, 1999)

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