Assessment of Implementation of Fire Safety Procedures and Regulation in Public Buildings

Abstract

The research assessed the level of implementation of fire safety procedures and regulations in public buildings, which employed the use of questionnaire to ask questions from a sample of 100 facility managers, 230 workers and 220 visitors from selected public buildings. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data collected from the subjects. The findings of the study showed that there are available and adequate Fire Safety provisions which have satisfied their level of implementation. The study reviewed relevant literature on fire, causes of fire in public buildings, fire safety regulations, control of fire, fire prevention and protection, assessment of fire safety, implementation of fire safety. The structured questionnaire used contained 34 items, which were divided into (4) four sections (A, B,C and D), Section A was designed to elicit information status, name, address and type of the public building, Section B was designed to elicit information on the availability of fire safety provisions in the public buildings and Section C was designed to elicit information on adequacy of fire safety provisions in public buildings while Section D was designed to elicit information on the level of implementation of the fire safety provision by the building authorities. The instrument was validated by experts of building construction in the Department of Science and Technology Education of Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. Its reliability was established using split half method by the use of Guttman split-half coefficient formula to correlate between forms with a coefficient of 0.706. The Research recommended that a permanent fire safety committee in all the public buildings should be constituted to be responsible for given out fire safety provisions guide to building users on periodic bases, Courses on fire safety should be introduced, and made compulsory for student irrespective of his/her cause of study, Fire safety training should be carried out at least annually. The study suggested that there is need for further studies on the attitude of public building users towards fire safety procedures and regulations, An investigation in to the awareness level of public building users towards implementation of Fire Safety procedures and regulations in public buildings, An assessment on the level of adequacy of fire safety equipments in public buildings and The study on the level of satisfaction of Fire Safety provisions and training in public buildings.