A study of fire safety awareness in domestic buildings in Hong Kong

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing-yi, Winnie Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Safety Awareness

Fire safety strategies for existing rock caverns in Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.K. Tam ◽  
H.L. Tsang ◽  
Gigi C.H. Lui ◽  
N.K. Fong ◽  
W.K. Chow
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Safety Strategies

Adequacy of Safe Egress Design Codes for Supertall Buildings

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 568-580
Author(s):  
Edgar C. L. Pang ◽  
◽  
Wan-Ki Chow
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Emergency Evacuation ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Commercial Building ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Normal Heights ◽  
Evacuation Routes

Emergency evacuation for supertall buildings with heights over 200 m require a very long time for occupants to travel down the buildings. Occupants might jam into protected lobbies and staircases, extending the waiting time. There is not yet any code requirement specifically for emergency evacuation in supertall buildings, which are criticized for using the same codes for buildings with normal heights. Further, the evacuation design for several existing supertall buildings does not even follow prescriptive fire-safety codes. The underlying problems have not yet been addressed by thorough studies. Evacuation in such tall buildings in Hong Kong will be studied in this paper. The assumptions made in the local prescriptive codes for safe egress will be justified. Three buildings with evacuation design complying with the local codes are considered as examples. A commercial building, a hotel, and a residential block in Hong Kong are taken as examples. The key design parameters in the local codes are for 40 people evacuating with a flow rate of 1.1 person/s through the staircase between typical floors. The evacuation time from each floor to the protected lobby is assumed to be within 5 min. The evacuation times in different scenarios with these assumptions are calculated. Such assumptions do not hold under a high occupant load. The total evacuation time would be extended significantly when the travelling flows of occupants are blocked in any of the evacuation routes. Different fire-safety management schemes with staged evacuation, such as assigning higher priorities to evacuate lower or upper floors first, are evaluated. The results observed for safe egress are then discussed.

scholarly journals Investigation of Fire Safety Awareness and Management in Mall

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 06004 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Abdul Rahim ◽  
M. Taib ◽  
M.A. Othuman Mydin
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Safety Awareness

Fire safety legislation in Hong Kong

Facilities ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 246-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Walters ◽  
E.M. Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Fire Safety

scholarly journals Compliance on Fire Safety Measures among Ships from Flags of Convenience Countries in Malaysian Ports

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4590-4594
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
International Community ◽  
State Control ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Marshall Island ◽  
Safety Code ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Control Regime ◽  
Port State Control

This study aims to identify the trends and performance of the top five Flags of Convenience (FOC) or open registries comprising of Panama, Marshall Island, Liberia, Malta and Bahamas as compared to the top five traditional flag states or non-FOC registries, which are Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Greece and Japan in term of their compliance to the Fire Safety (Code 7) requirements. The focus on fire safety is important since fire is known to be one of the greatest risks to safety on board ships. The outcome of this study has shown that although various measures have been taken by the international community through the introduction of stricter regulations and additional enforcement initiatives through the port state control regime, the standard produced by ships belonging to the FOC countries is still significantly lower than the standard produced by ships of the non-FOC.

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