Hospital fire safety improvement effort (study case Rumah Sakit Ibu dan Anak, Banda Aceh)

Abstract

Rumah Sakit Ibu dan Anak (RSIA) Aceh Province is a public service agency that equipped well and also becomes a reference hospital. As a reference hospital, RSIA has many patients with a severe and critical condition which are difficult to be evacuated in a fire case. Therefore, the building of RSIA should have good fire safety to minimize risk for patients, hospital personnel, and equipment. The objective of this research is to appraise the safety building of RSIA with Fire Risk Index method. The appraisal was done for 23 hospital rooms by scoring 17 index parameters. Each parameter score then multiplied with respective weight and sum up to get a Fire Risk Index. Moreover, this research also assessed the hospital fire management with deep interview approach for several key persons. Next, the knowledge of hospital personnel and patients were also revealed with the questionnaire survey. The result found that RSIA has an intermediate level of building fire safety with an average index of 3.2. For fire management, it can be concluded that there is a system of fire management already available which is managed and commanded by Health and Safety unit. In addition, the equipment related to fire protection has been maintained regularly with support from the Disaster Mitigation Agency of Banda Aceh municipality. Related to the knowledge of hospital personnel, it revealed that some items need to be improved such as emergency code, the use of fire extinguisher, and emergency signal. For patients, the knowledge of using electrical equipment which has the potential to create fire should be improved. Lastly, patients also need to be informed about fire mitigation and evacuation.