Fire safety awareness in squatter house

Housing sector is one of the important sectors to develop a country. The issues on squatter house became a main government focuses in every development programmed in Malaysia. Many of squatter house been build illegal in this country that cause to the damages especially during fire happen. The people in this house lack of level of awareness about fire safety. Therefore, the purposed of this research is to assess level of awareness on fire safety measures for users in the squatter house. There are three objectives in this study which is identify level of awareness among occupants in the squatter house on fire safety, to determine challenges to implement awareness and to recommend ways to increase the awareness among occupants in the squatter house. This research will be focusing on the occupants in the squatter house and the community around them. For the best method in collecting data is by using quantitative method which is by distributed questionnaire. Overall we can know that the level of awareness on fire safety among the occupants is still on moderate level, if this issue was underestimated it would lead to panic and danger to the occupants.