Abstract
In spite of having sufficient fire safety system installed in buildings, the incidence of fire hazard becomes the furthermost and supreme threat to health and safety, as well as property to any community. In order to make sure that the safety of the building and its users, the fundamental features depends on the fire precaution system and equipment which should be according to the standard requirements. Nevertheless, the awareness on fire safety could necessarily alleviate the damages or rate of fatality during the event of fire. This paper presents the results on the investigation of fire safety awareness and management, concentrating on shopping mall. The endeavour of this study is to explore the level of fire safety knowledge of the users in the mall, and to study the effectiveness level of fire safety management in a mall. From the study, public awareness is highly related to understanding human behaviour and their personal background. The respondents' levels of awareness are rather low, which reflects on their poor action when facing emergency situation during fire. The most effective methods identified to improve the awareness and effectiveness of fire safety level is through involvement in related fire safety programmes, distribution of pamphlets or brochures on fire safety and appointing specific personnel for Emergency Response Team in the mall.
Highlights
The occurrence of accidental fires in shopping mall can be more detrimental since experience has shown that the worst fires are the result of many factors dysfunction or just go wrong
The fire safety includes all these crucial elements [1]. This shopping mall building is essentially at higher risk because it is used as administrative centre for government offices
This research focused on high-rise building, Kompleks Tun Abdul Rahman (KOMTAR) as been shown in Figure 1 which is located in Penang and the focus was only at the podium area which starts from the 1st floor until the 4th floor
Summary
The occurrence of accidental fires in shopping mall can be more detrimental since experience has shown that the worst fires are the result of many factors dysfunction or just go wrong. The fire safety includes all these crucial elements [1] This shopping mall building is essentially at higher risk because it is used as administrative centre for government offices. Despite good conditions of the fire protection system, fire problems may still occur and will be difficult to deal with, when it involves public visitors as they are not familiar with the building environment and its layout. The awareness of public shoppers or visitors may increase or alleviate the percentage of total mortality, costs and other loss
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