This article is designed to provide guideline security risk management and proffer solutions for cross-sectoral safety risk management. It focuses on practices used to reduce security vulnerabilities to life and property. The course content used in this module is based on NFPA 730 – Guide on Premises Security and NFPA 731 – Standard for the Installation of Electronic Premises Security Systems.
What Is RAGAGEP And Why Does It Matter? This is an acronym standing for Recognized and Generally Accepted Engineering Practice. It is applied in safety systems management, a regulation for enforcement of engineering processes approved by OSHA.OSHA requirements are set by statute, standards, and regulations.
Recently, occupational pressures and fears of safety concerns in critical operational facilities have increased over the past decades. In Nigeria, the work environment is getting precarious for businesses in different sectors as they are daily exposed to worsening safety situations.
The underlying color rules for markings, identification and operational warning in fire safety are very important to users, operators, auditors, and system maintenance engineers or technicians. This does not only help in systems documentation, but also tracing and working on the correct piping routes during maintenance, upgrade, and ease in systems process automation and control. NFPA 704 – Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response, ANSI/ASME A13.1 – Pipe Color Code Standards, ISO 14726 – Color Coding Piping Systems, and ISO 22324 – Societal Security – Emergency Management – Guidelines for Color-Coded Alerts are the benchmarking standards for compliance on color codes. ISO 20471:2016 Amendment – High Visibility Clothing makes provisions for safety wear with regards to requirements for high visibility clothing. ‘NFPA 1950 – Standard on Protective Clothing, Ensembles, and Equipment for Technical Rescue Incidents, Emergency Medical Operations, and Wildland Firefighting, and Urban Interface Firefighting’ gives guidelines on the aspect of protective clothing, including hard hats or safety helmets. American National Standards Institute / International Safety Equipment Association ANSI /ISEA 107-2020 – Standard for High-Visibility Safety Apparel, and The Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA) covers aspects of color for safety wears. OSHA has color standards for caution and barricade tapes too. Guidelines for helmets are given in ISO 2925 – Specification for Industrial Safety Helmets, and Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS).
ENSURING SAFER BUILDINGS – DESIGN CONSIDERATION FOR BUILDING STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AGAINST COLLAPSE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY CONSIDERATION AGAINST COLLAPSE IN CASE OF FIRE, ENSURING SAFER BUILDINGS Ensuring the adequacy and availability of Safety Management Systems through the life cycle of a facility is a daunting task for Concept Owner, Architects, developers. Engineering & Construction firms and Operators are inclusive of facility Managers. Lots of companies and professionals and companies have faced extensive ligation and license revoking due to grave consequences resulting from this weakness. For Life and Fire Safety, the fire code is a model code adopted by Authorities having Jurisdiction and enforced by fire prevention officers. It complements the Building Code (IBC) prescribing minimum requirements to prevent fire and explosion hazards arising from storage, handling, or use of dangerous materials, or from other specific hazardous conditions within municipal fire departments…
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The occurrence of fire disasters is not a new phenomenon in Ghanaian history. The 1983 fire that engulfed Ghana which led to a severe hunger crisis is perhaps the most notable fire reference point in the country. Recently, fire disasters have taken place in public facilities of strategic value. The Kumasi market fire of December 2012 (where over 150 shops were razed down); other places affected by fire are offices of the Electoral Commission, the Ridge Residence of former President Rawlings, ministry of Education amongst many others. Between January and October 2019, Ghana recorded a total of 4623 fire outbreaks. Also, from January to October 2020 a surge to 5355 incidents (representing about 35.6%) domestic rise was reported by Joy Watch.
Most engineering designs can be classified as inventions-devices or systems that are created by human effort and did not exist before or are improvements over existing devices or systems. Inventions, or designs, do not suddenly appear from nowhere.
From building collapse to fire incidence, road, sea, rail and air mishap, tanker explosion, insecurity challenge, flood and workplace accident, Nigeria has been hugely impacted by varying degrees of natural and man-induced disaster that have rubbed off negatively on human lives and national purse.
For instance, a recent report by Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) revealed that Nigeria lost about $188bn investment opportunities between 2017 – 2020, representing more than 92 percent investment opportunities in four years.
But according to a former Director General of Lagos Chamber of Commerce of Industry (LCCI), Muda Yusuf, this is not unconnected to low level of investors’ confidence, fueled by structural problems of infrastructure and worsening security situation, amid other uncertainties in the country.
Lives lost to disaster and emergency in the country are immeasurable even as report by InterNations described Nigeria as the third most dangerous place to live in the world with regards to safety and security, after South Africa and Brazil.
According to media report, between 2019 and 2021, Nigeria recorded no fewer than 68 fire outbreak resulting in 79 deaths which the Federal Fire Service (FFS) identified electrical spark as the major cause of most outbreak.
Reports by Brookings also put Nigeria has number one in the frequency and intensity of building collapse in Africa. The report further identifies that no fewer than 6000 households were displaced by building collapse with property worth of $3.2 trillion forfeited.
