Road safety is critical to the socioeconomic agenda of nations across the world. The world wide cost of road traffic is estimated to be U$518 billion annually. This impact has emerged as a significant safety concern where its occurrence on each passing day leads to the untimely end of valuable human and material resources. It is tiring to express that road safety is a timely critical move that must be urgently fixed and wholly addressed.
Wikipedia states that “The Internet of things describes physical objects with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.” The things in the IoT can be a person with a heart monitor implant, an endangered animal that is embedded with biochip transponder that helps the wildlife managers in tracking animals, a building with motion detectors for intrusion detection and alarm, a fluid level monitor for notifying the facility mangers of need to procure and refill the storage tank, fire detection system that notifies the fire service department during a fire emergency, an aerial scanner that carries out geospatial analysis and feeds the output to map exploration and transportation management applications in individuals’ devices over the internet.
The consequences of environmental pollution is visible in severe. In recent times the world is grappling with and chronic deadly diseases; the destruction of aquatic life (both flora and fauna) has damaged the natural habitat of man and some precious irreplaceable wildlife as the world keeps getting warmer and hotter, continuous depletion of soil quality has greatly altered food production (quality and quantity), depletion of earth resources has resulted to deterioration of life cycle and expectancy and opened the door for other calamities like earthquakes, cyclones, flooding to wreck our world. Evidently, all of these have caused irreplaceable damage to humankind.
Engineering Reliability puts Safety margins in consideration. Safety margins are the measure of the planned, estimated or calculated values of engineering parameters against the actual at implementation or production phase. This entails that there could be some level of deviations from of the design parameters from the actual values that are considered as standard error. Safety Factor is the structural application of safety margin, which considers the structural design loads against actual design loads. Fire protection services has significant influence in this as major contributor of dead and live loads in structural systems, especially buildings.
The global strategy of achieving zero-carbon emissions from burning fuels is to optimize, electrify and decarbonize to maintain natural threshold of atmospheric CO2 levels and environmental safety, while achieving sustainability through alternative, renewable and efficient energy options.
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From the standpoint of NFPA 101, the occupancy type (mercantile) and loading of shopping malls directly make them a high hazardous area as the majority of the items stored are some sort of fuels and inflammable materials, alongside, the oxygen-rich environment and the high traffic of buyers in them. And even with the recent E-commerce trends, some malls have installed data centers for ease of transaction processes. All these considerations make malls a location with a potentially high fire-hazard classification area. With this knowledge of the fire hazard classifications of malls, HSE policies such as RTNs, hazardous signals, age-limit restrictions, appropriate demarcation for highly inflammable materials are to be incorporated into malls to ultimately reduce the risk of damages to HSE and assets, ensuring compliance to standards and regulatory requirements.
According to medical experts, excessive heat has damaging effects on victim’s health as it can lead to dehydration due to excessive loss of water, heat exhaustion, heat stroke and sometimes death.
It is, however, important to stress that being a direct consequence of the global warming challenge which the entire world is currently contending with, long term solutions as against immediate remedies would be more appropriate and effective in dealing with excessive heat
Owing to the increasing cases of catastrophic and deadly events across the world, there is the need to change the narrative;
Process safety among many other values sustains economic prosperity and environmental sustainability. This is through periodic assessment and instalment of prevention equipment and personnel. It is agreed that technical process and safety impacts people, communities, asset and environment (McLennan, 2018).
It also strengthens inter- sectoral harmony. As a multi-disciplinary approach, it brings professionals of different fields and synergizes a union dedicated safety and technical performance. This collaborative potential enhances a fusion of safety excellence and bond of technical excellence within stakeholders (Shariff, 2017) .
Technical process safety hinders major catastrophes from happenings (injuries and fatalities) and promote safe workforce (people and equipment). The entire process seeks to attain safety and loss of viable economic and productivity resources.
There is general agreement that the goals of structural design against fire are to limit risks to the individual and society, to directly exposed or neighboring property, and to the environment.
