Fire safety awareness: a comparison of shopping malls in Manjung, Perak / Nur Adila Balqis Ahmad Sabri and Mohd Khairul Amri Ramly

Fire accident can appear in a building at any cost and any time, which cause by many reasons and sources. Shopping malls are frequented and accessed by lots of people at once, thus providing proper fire protection precautions is essential and important in order to prevent any accident or prevent them from happening. This academic project aims to understand and analyse the awareness of fire safety measures for users of shopping malls involving two case study building in Manjung Perak. This study was conducted through questionnaire, survey study with a description statical analysis using median, mean, mode approach. A total of 224 respondent was captured for this survey and the researcher found that the majority of respondents chose responses indicating moderate awareness and understanding on fire safety measures. According to the survey results, it concludes that the lesser building users spent their time inside the building, there will be tendency that they have lesser awareness on fire safety measures in a building.