A study on the awareness of fire safety legislation for residental in Perak Tengah / Nik Nurul Syahirah Nik Mohamad

Fire is a useful element to human for living, but when it became uncontrollable it will lead to loss of lives and properties especially in the unforeseen event of fire accident that happens in buildings. Fires can happen anytime and causes dire consequences. Due to this situation, knowing the fire safety such as fire safety measure, fire safety procedure and how to use fire prevention equipment and other is important for every user of a building to protect and save themselves when fire incident occurred. Therefore, this research aims to discuss the awareness of residential in Perak Tengah on fire safety legislation. To achieve the research aim, the research objectives have been set to measure the level of awareness of fire safety legislation among residential in Perak Tengah, to determine their knowledge regarding the legislation and guideline for fire safety equipment and to identify the method of educating residential on fire safety legislation. The technique used for data collection in this research is questionnaire surveys. There were 127 respondent that contribute to helping this research. The questionnaires were administered by email, Perak Tengah’s society group and through social media directly. Data collected was analysed using SPSS 22.00 and Microsoft Excel 2016. The result shows that the respondents are generally highly aware of the fire safety elements except for the comparatively lower awareness on knowledge of the legislation of fire safety and things to practice. The future studies could investigate various states of respondents to achieve a greater accuracy in the research on awareness of fire safety legislation