Exploring fire safety awareness among the Malaysian public
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Date
2006
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Sulaiman, Azim
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Are you confident that your home and family are safe from fire? Do you what to do if fire strikes your home? The answer to this question would reflect is your level of awareness towards fire safety. Fire cases in Malaysia have been increasing rapidly over the years.
Majority of the cases involved residential buildings which viciously had caused property losses, severe injuries to the victims and even caused death. This scenario is significantly worrying with regard to national development, as the prime purpose of owning a house is to provide shelter and security to the residents. Issues arose and surveys conducted over the recent years as shown in the media revealed that the main contribution towards the increase of fire cases in Malaysia is due low level of fire safety awareness among the public. Furthermore, there have been lacks of fire safety measures such as installing smoke detectors and portable fire extinguishers at most houses in Malaysia as compared to houses in Britain, Australia and New Zealand where it had significantly reduced the fire fatalities and losses. Over the recent years, there have been ampaigns, seminars and trainings on fire safety conducted by the National Fire and Rescue Department. However, these fire preventive measures somehow rather failed to up lift the level of fire safety awareness among the public since the numbers of fire cases throughout the years are still at the worrying stage. Perhaps there should be a question to be kept in our mind regarding the responsibility on promoting fire safety awareness among the public. Does it solely lies to the regulating authorities or it is the responsibility of each individual?