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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.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY are practices, policies, and procedures that ensure the safety and well-being of anyone in the immediate area. This can include safety in terms of proper waste disposal, containment, and storage of potentially toxic chemicals ad much more.

The world we are in poses a lot of risks. The work we do likewise constitute a threat to our lives.  Globally, more than 2.78 million people die as a result of work related accidents or diseases. There is an additional 374 million non fatal work related injuries annually.  It is being estimated that the economic burden of occupational related injury and death is nearly four percent of the global gross domestic product of some developed countries.  Conversely, the human cost of this adversity is enormous. Across the world, the level of safety attained in a work environment is a function of the level of investment employers and employees are willing to invest and commit to; no wonder in some quarters safety is top notch while in some places laxity and frequent workplace accidents is palpable.  The reality about the health and safety of Nigerians is still in a messy state.

Safety Management system (SMS) is a program put in place to promote safety awareness and risk reduction to workers. Safety management helps the efficiency of work force at work place, secure lives, there are massive progress with project that safety is well managed.

The scope of marine safety covers both active audit, and passive safety elements as to be captured in the inspection checklist drafted from the templates in the applicable standards. Overall aspects of life safety, and fire safety covers – personal protective equipment, safety of tools and machinery, electrical safety, fire safety, handling of materials, chemical and hazardous substance storage, working at height safety, and behavioral safety. The ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS) guidelines can be adapted to any of the specialized codes and standards that are applicable in marine industry. The checklist for ISO 45001 standard is a good footing for marine safety audit, apart from the SOLAS convention agreement, which serves as a discipline specific guideline.

Constructability Review is a process of identifying and mitigating possible project implementation failures at the design stage. It can be done through the traditional review or computer-based review. This is a third-party review of an engineering deliverable from Detailed Engineering (construction package – plans and specifications) before obtaining bids for construction. The review is done to identify any potential conflicts or deficiencies that may affect the contractor’s ability to perform the construction based on those documents

Top Consideration for Safe Guarding of Life, Environment and Asset from Fire Accidents in High Rise Building