Analysis of Fire Protection Facilities in Hospital Buildings

Shastri, B. Abhishek; Raghav, Y. Sivaji; Sahadev, R.; Yadav, Bikarama Prasad

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7281-9_15

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“…An audit in Cuban hospitals also identified mismanagement of maintenance activities by staff in the maintenance department as the root cause of subsequent maintenance problems [9]. More recently, fire safety concerns in hospitals were raised where various fire incidents in Asia and globally were reported and maintenance of firefighting appliances were among the issues mentioned [10,11].…”

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Value-Based Building Maintenance Practices for Public Hospitals in Malaysia

2021

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Public hospital buildings in Malaysia have been facing problems and have become subjects of public criticisms due to poor building maintenance practices. A value-based approach which integrates and assimilates the concepts of value can be applied to mitigate maintenance problems in hospital buildings. This study evaluated the causal relationships between value factors and value outcomes of building maintenance in public hospitals in Malaysia. A total of 66 samples were collected via an online questionnaire survey. Analysis was performed using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Our results reveal that value-adding practices and value co-creation have a positive influence on value outcomes in hospitals. The findings, however, do not support the relationships between factors of user involvement and value outcomes, which merit further investigation. This study concludes that value-adding practice has the strongest impact on value outcomes. Thus, maintenance service providers should assimilate these practices in their services to enhance performance. In addition, the findings also justify the requirement for collaborative working arrangements for value co-creation of building maintenance.

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Value-Based Building Maintenance Practices for Public Hospitals in Malaysia

2021

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“…A healthcare facility is a safe place where fatal and non-fatal illnesses are managed. Many studies have shown that though hospital facilities follow safety precautionary approaches, there is a countless possible new accident because of the environment (Shastri et al , 2018). Thus, the hospital environment is charged with complex intrinsic risks, especially hospitals in developing countries.…”

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“…Ramachandran (1999) found that reducing life risk is the key aim for buildings such as hospitals, department stores, cinemas, drama theatres, shopping complexes and hotels, whereas property protection is the key aim for industrial and commercial premises. Management leadership, employee participation, hazard identification and assessment, hazard prevention and control, fire safety and emergency awareness using education and training, and system evaluation and improvement were identified as the health and safety system management assessment tools that may enhance the FSMP (Shastri et al , 2018). Meacham (1999) found that the FSMP is often developed separately from fire safety designs in places where it operates.…”

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“…Buildings and critical infrastructure systems, equipment, hospital material stores, post-fire administrative and managerial work have been identified as comprehensive activities during post-disaster hospital inspection (Kularatne et al , 2021). Ong and Suleiman (2015a) and Shastri et al (2018) identified eight main issues as the root causes of fire in hospital buildings, which include insufficient mechanised firefighting equipment, weak compliance to safety law, inadequate maintenance and management of firefighting equipment, and insufficient professional staffers to handle a few safety equipment available. Others are lax accident management techniques, safety bureaucracy leading to bottlenecks in safety matters and facilities not built to make evacuation easy.…”

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Developing a framework for fire safety management plan: the case of Malaysia's public hospital buildings

Jaafar

Salim

Salleh

et al. 2021

IJBPA

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PurposeGlobally, several studies have shown that hospital building is charged with multiple inherent risks because a large number of users are vulnerable in tragic events. Thus, the need for the fire safety management plan (FSMP) has been proved as an instrument to mitigate fire and related risks in healthcare facilities. In Malaysia, FSMP regarding public healthcare building is yet to be explored in-depth. Therefore, this paper explores the information necessary to develop the FSMP framework for public hospital buildings.Design/methodology/approachThe paper’s objectives were accomplished via a combination of five face-to-face interviews and observations of five selected public hospitals in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. The five key participants were across the five public hospitals and collated data analysed through thematic analysis with the assistance of MAXQDA 2018.FindingsFindings show that fire safety stakeholders practice system, fire safety action plan and fire risk management were the three main variables that promote fire safety programme and will improve FSMP for Malaysia’s public hospital buildings.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper’s data collection is limited to Penang, Malaysia, and a qualitative research approach was used, but this does not deteriorate the strength of the findings. Future studies are needed to consider validating findings from this paper via a quantitative approach.Practical implicationsThe suggested framework can be employed by Malaysia’s public hospital authorities as a guideline to mitigate fire hazards in the country’s healthcare facilities.Originality/valueThis paper is encouraging hospital operators and other key stakeholders to improve on their FSMP for healthcare buildings across Malaysia as part of the study implications.

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“…The places included within the primary risk zone of such fires are those (hospitals, schools, gas stations, shopping centers, military installations, and transformer buildings) located at a short distance from the location of the fire. Hospitals are hard to evacuate quickly, as compared to several buildings and settlements, and there are special actions taken in this case [29,30]. Schools have large masses of different age groups, and these are not easy to manage in emergency cases.…”

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Risk Assessment of Industrial Fires for Surrounding Vulnerable Facilities Using a Multi-Criteria Decision Support Approach and GIS

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Aksoy

Akpınar

2021

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The fires encountered in the buildings and facilities of industrial areas make up quite a small proportion of all fire cases. However, in terms of the heat release rate, size of the burned area, damage, and impact zone, such fires have a large impact as compared to other fire cases. All fires have risk in terms of propagation. However, since fires in industrial structures and plants have rather high levels, qualitatively and quantitatively, compared to residential fires and other types of fires, it should be regarded as necessary to research them extensively. In this study, fires that have broken out in various places around Turkey, such as in factories, cold storage plants, and manufacturing facilities, were investigated. We aimed to determine the level of risk of the occurrence of these fires in the environment. A large amount of detailed information gathered about these fires was analyzed. This information includes data about the causes of the fires, deformation data of various materials, data on technical problems, data on financial damage levels, and data on fire patterns. We found 40 of these fire cases in total, and the case data were used to calculate the risk scores with the Geographic Information System (GIS), Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), and Inverse Distance Weight (IDW) methods. For each fire case, places sensitive to damage and losses were assessed according to six main criteria. Buffer analysis maps were generated for the 40 fire cases, and the cases were ordered based on their overall risk scores. In this ordering, fire case number 21 was found in the riskiest region, and fire cases 32, 17, and 31 were found in the low-risk region. Fire case number 21 occurred in a factory used for manufacturing fabric. This factory works with high volumes of acrylic, polyester, and other raw materials. In addition, there are some structures in very close proximity. It was observed that fire cases could be well differentiated depending on the selected criteria in the model applied.

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Analysis of Fire Protection Facilities in Hospital Buildings

Cited by 11 publications

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Value-Based Building Maintenance Practices for Public Hospitals in Malaysia

Value-Based Building Maintenance Practices for Public Hospitals in Malaysia

Developing a framework for fire safety management plan: the case of Malaysia's public hospital buildings

Risk Assessment of Industrial Fires for Surrounding Vulnerable Facilities Using a Multi-Criteria Decision Support Approach and GIS

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