Fire Safety Design Considerations

Fire! A means of cooking in some remote parts of the world, can be dangerous, if generated or propagated in large quantity. In any building design, fire is one of the factors to be considered, to avoid harvoc.
Here are a few factors to be considered during design stage;

Type of Occupancy.

This is the first point to be put into consideration, when designing. The question is, what is the purpose of this building? Is it residential, or industrial. This will trigger the basics of the design, not tampering with the standard of construction. The number of people that will occupy the space, and the dimension of the building will help a lot.

Building Construction.

This particularly deals with the material types to be specified in the design. There are couples of materials to be used, relative to the durability, resistivity, or non-combustibility of such materials, the designer must choose the best that suites the purpose of the building. The materials must be the type that must, if non-conbustible, be fire resistive.

Cost.

This is funny! But, it must be considered, not all fingers are equal, so, before you decide on which materials to be used, consider your client’s financial stands.

Means of Egress.

This is the most important life safety consideration. This actually deals with the ease and how the occupants will escape from the building, to avoid being consumed by the raging fire. The designer should put into consideration, the travel distance; which is the distance to be travelled before reaching the exit points. Also,  the exit width; this deals with the dimensions of the exit points, it must be well dimensioned enough to accommodate occupants.

These are the few factors to be put into considerations, that will harness safety from inferno.

Safety tips on construction sites

A construction site

Work becomes more interesting, and more energetic, when a site, where such a work, is being carried out is accident free, but, on the contrary, it is always enervating, when it is full of energy sapping, and pain aggravating accidents.
These health hazards, which  cause  retardation  to the rapid  pace of site  works,  and at times, make contractors lose money, are often  caused  by mistakes  and  negligence.  Meanwhile, for the purpose of those who care about safety, here are some safety tips that enhance safety;

Boots – As a worker on a site, always put your boots on,  your work   might not be related to  nails,  but,  never  can tell,  you may want to  take  a trek,  a nail will not inform you about its intent to  give you a long, sleepless night of pain. But, if you tread on a nail, quickly make twenty hits on it,  with a hammer

Tuck in your trouser – Do not  hesitate to always tuck your hard jean trouser  into your boots, this  actually concerns  site managers, surveyors, and  architects,  going on a reconnaissance survey – a new site with  fresh  vegetation may be breeding high venom reptiles.

Wear glasses when welding – taking a closer look at the type of materials used to weld, you need to shield your eyes away from those strands of sharp flames.

Helmet – in a case of stories, or hoisting works generally, you need a helmet to shield your head from dropping items, dropping items, ranging from 2” nails, to a hammer, to steel sections. It sounds funny, but, many people have died because of dropping items.

Do not trust  temporary structures wholeheartedly – as  it sounds, they are temporary, and workers in charge, especially carpenters, try to make them temporary as they can, so, do not trust those structures by leaning on them, you might just  see yourself  kissing the floor afterwards.

Do not joke with delivery trucks – putting up a “hard-man” mode, or acting like “jet li” when delivery trucks are moving around might be a real deal of catastrophe, especially, when the unexpected occurs. The gist is, move away from them when they are performing their duties.

Watch heights – the essence of this is to let you know that heights can be deceiving, although, some do not have phobia for heights, nonetheless, you have to be extra careful when mounting.

Use your eyes well – in everything you do, use your sense of sight effectively.
Thank you.