Effects of unsafe workplace practices on the fire safety performance of ready-made garments (RMG) buildings

Analysis of the fire risks and mitigation approaches in the apparel manufacturing industry: Implications toward operational safety and sustainability

“… Proposed Stratified Mitigation Plan? Asaduzzaman [ 46 ] Descriptive statistics Determining the relationship between fire safety management cost and profit increasing No No Habib et al [ 42 ] Descriptive Statistics Depicting the declining trend in the number of fire incidents after initiating fire safety inspection No No Rathnayake et al [ 45 ] RII Presenting a ranking of the fire risk factors and providing subjective suggestions for risk mitigation Yes No Khan et al [ 23 ] CFD Determining the effect of non-standard practices on evacuation during a fire incident No No Nilufar and Choiti [ 29 ] Computer Simulation Determining the correlation between emergency escape routes and occupant movement behavior No No Islam and Roman [ 5 ] FRI Determining weights of the fire risk parameters to evaluate the risk index of factories Indirect No Barua et al [ 41 ] Descriptive Statistics Depicting a comparison of the impact between standard and non-standard practices during an evacuation No No Haque et al [ 43 ] Computer Simulation Analyzing the fire and smoke propagation pattern and the evacuation scenario of the occupants No No Haque and Chowdhury [ 40 ] …”

“…For instance, qualitative studies have shown the importance of fire safety in apparel factories [ 19 , 20 ]. Khan et al [ 23 ] analyzed the effects of non-standard fire safety practices on worker safety in apparel factories using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling. Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process ( AHP) has been used to identify weights of fire risk factors for commercial buildings [ 24 , 25 ].…”

Evacuation performance on offshore platforms under different visibility conditions

“…The reduction of visibility can result in reduced evacuation speed and increased evacuation time [18] . As SFPE handbook points that evacuees who know the internal geometry of the building in fire need a visibility of 4 m for safe escape while those who do not know the building geometry need a visibility of 13 m [3] .…”

“…The mobility of personnel under the influence of smoke in EXODUS [17] is based on Jin's [4] experimental data. Both FDS+EVAC and EXODUS have also been widely used to consider the effect of visibility on the evacuation of personnel [18,19] .…”

Analyzing Construction Workers’ Unsafe Behaviors in Hoisting Operations of Prefabricated Buildings Using HAZOP

“…Qualitative analysis methods have also been used in studying workers’ unsafe behaviors and have focused on areas such as social psychology and modular construction. Khan [ 11 ] evaluated fire safety performance according to the characteristics of multi-story garment (RMG) buildings in India, and Zermane [ 12 ] used fault tree analysis to assess the risk of high-altitude work in Malaysian buildings. Chih [ 13 ] studied the negative impact of psychological contract breach (PCB) on workers’ safety, Guo [ 14 ] used an intelligent video surveillance method to carry out an early warning of workers’ illegal behaviors, and Chatzimichailidou [ 15 ] studied the safety risk of modular construction in the construction industry.…”