We all continue to face unprecedented times, as the world suffers from global disruption in the component supply and transportation sector. Our Esteemed Carrier Fire & Security, have done their very best to minimize the impact of this disruption, and to safeguard the delivery of all our services and products, ensuring minimal effect on your own business activities.
It is being said that safety does not happen by accident; someone must take responsibility even when it is not the easiest choice to make. On Friday June 10, 2022, a major fire disaster was averted in Agbarho community in Ughelli North Local Government of Delta State when a driver of a petrol tanker drove his burning tanker to a safer place before it completely went up in flames. Mr Ejiro Otarigho demonstrated this feat. As simple and unrecognised as this act was interpreted, thousands of lives were saved from untimely being burnt with many livelihoods preserved.
C-LEVEL management continuously exhibits low consideration to best Practice Safety Engineering for protection of life, environment and assets. This is driven by greed and need for exorbitant financial gains in the construction services sector. Expert consideration and solutions to mitigate risks as required by regulatory bodies and made prescriptive in design standards and codes are consciously ignored. The myth of most shows in this sector in the AFRICAN region focus is on foreign imported products without any merit to local development and involvement of RISK ENGINEERS and SPECIFIERS who are SOLUTION OWNERS.
FM-200, NOVECTM 1230, and Inert gasses are the most common clean agent fire suppression systems in the market today. The clean agent fire suppression (total flooding) systems here include – Heptaflouropropane (HFC227ea or FM 200TM) and other halocarbons, including Halon 1310, HFC-125, HFC-23. Flouroketone ‘Dodecafluoro-2-methylpentan-3-one (FK-5-1-12) or NOVECTM 1230’ is a good clean agent. Inergen (IG541 or Nitrogen 52%, Argon 40% and CO2 8%), Nitrogen IG-100 (N-100 or 100% Nitrogen), Argon IG01 (Argon 100%) and Argonite (IG55 or 50% Argon, 50% Nitrogen). They have a high capacity to extinguish a fire without leaving residue after evaporation. Clean agents are non-toxic, non-corrosive, electrically non-conductive and environmentally friendly.
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.
NEO is an EN 54-16 certified public address background music and voice alarm system, compact and all-in-one, that allows a quick installation using only one unit. Designed for medium and large venues, NEO offers advanced functions while reducing time and costs. Its plug-and-play philosophy facilitates all installation, maintenance, and operating procedures.
The concept of Safety in Design methodology considers how to eliminate, isolate or minimize the risks of death, injury and ill health (to as low as reasonably practicable) to those who construct, operate, maintain, decommission or demolish an asset. It avails the opportunity to proactively reduce the health and safety risk to personnel during the life of an asset, understanding the environment, identifying stakeholders and planning safety in design procedure.
A basic understanding of operational risk management (Employment Practice and Work Place Operational Risk Policy) while narrowing its focus on those construction, protection, processes and occupancy features necessary to minimize danger to life from the effects of fire, including smoke, heat, and toxic gases created during a fire.
This article covers the standards and specific requirements for effective and efficient response to emergency events, rescue and salvage operations. It focuses on the organization and deployment of emergency medical operations, special and fire suppression operations, to the public by Career (NFPA 1710) and Volunteer (NFPA 1720) departments to protect citizens.
IoT leads to achievement of sustainable and ecofriendly solutions, big data for coverage of large geographic areas, large and robust IT integrated infrastructure, cost efficient and energy efficient solutions, robust analytics and feedbacks through real-time monitoring and routine audits. Project / Product Life Cycle Management (CAD, BIM, CAE, CAM, Specification, Testing and FMA Cloud), Building Management Systems (BMS), Enterprise Resource Planning,
