Awareness of fire safety in old and new flatted residential buildings / Nor Azlina Zainal Abidin

This dissertation is a research about 'Awareness of Fire Safety in Old and New Flatted Residential Buildings'. It is divided into two section; Fire Safety and Fire Risk Assessments (Regulation and Legislation) and The Behavioural Action of Occupants to the Fire Regulation. All buildings should have a formal plan which sets out the way fire safety is to be managed. This fire safety plan will detail the responsibilities for fire safety management, and the accountabilities of individual staff members. The plan will also detail in general terms the steps which are to be taken to prevent fires starting, as well as the procedures for responding to outbreaks of fire. Besides that, it is included the characteristics of fire and the regulations from Fire Authority. The installation of a fire safety system is dependent on the type of the building. This dissertation was carried out at Flat Sri Selangor 1, Kuala Lumpur and Flat PKNS, Seksyen 7, Shah Alam, Selangor. These buildings are old and new flatted residential buildings. This research, covers the awareness of fire safety among the occupants of these buildings.