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.
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Operational Technology OT is by and large characterized as all non-IT authoritative gadgets and organization gear. Models may incorporate a property of the executive’s framework, an ATM machine, or an analytic device utilized in a high-level medical clinic. The association of these gadgets offers programmers the chance to think twice about acquiring unapproved admittance to business applications. Fortunately, there is developing mindfulness about the significance of managing OT security concerns. News features, for example, hacking pilgrim pipelines promise pioneers that they are focused on arranging and financing to secure their OT gadgets. Be that as it may, there are various associations, which can mean shutting the holes among IT and OT inside the framework. IT security groups like to have dynamic senior checking capacities, hazard the executive’s instruments, and distant fix abilities for IT gadgets however, a large portion of those devices and assets are not accessible or can’t be utilized for OT security.
CARBON AUDIT is often interrelated to ENERGY AUDIT, why? It is because carbon emission is a product of energy consumption. Various sources of energy have some level of contribution to atmospheric greenhouse gases which are mainly Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Nitrous oxide (N2O) and Methane (NH4) as these gasses accumulates in the atmosphere to form a shiel of gasses called Greenhouse Gases (GHGs).
At Safety Consultants and Solution Providers (SCSP), we are worried by the continuous disregard for safety campaigns. We will therefore not relax on our compliance drive for safety attainment. As a matter of urgency, we call on education stakeholders to inculcate and include safety in school curriculum for early adoption and should be immortalised as everyone’s business in a manner that makes citizen’s participation mandatory and crystal clear. Also, we encourage safety and health department of organisations to periodically embark on seminars and drills on safety so that employees and the general public are regularly apprised of the right safety practices. This can include legislations on safety compliance, safety inspections and adherence to safety policies and practices. Even something as simple as teaching workers safety acronyms or carrying out safety drills will get people continuously thinking about safety. On our part as safety outfit, (SCSP), we are open to training and developing manpower on safety expertise and effective compliance to safety as our unrelenting vision.
