Comparative Study of the Fire Supervision Arrangements in Apartment Houses

Abstract

Based on the changes in the shapes of apartment houses over the past decade, as the number of single-person households has increased, the protection of ultra-small and small apartments has increased. The current general supervision of firefighting is based on the number of floors and total floor area. Hence, the scale of supervision is excessive, and additional arrangement standards for auxiliary supervisors are stipulated based on the total floor area, rendering the current general supervision of firefighting unsuitable for the changes in the shapes of apartment houses. Therefore, the target of general supervision should be set at <300 households, and the maximum number of deployments should be reduced to three. Additionally, standards should be set to deploy auxiliary supervisors as the number of households increases, such that fire safety and quality can be secured via practical system improvement.