Fire outbreak in manufacturing industries and factories are unpredictable and unintended. They often result in a great property and human loss. Studying the origins of fire within factories and observing the previous disasters, we came up with few causes and precautions that when followed help in eradicating the damage to happen.
Equipment Failure
Factories and industries are equipped with heavy machinery that are needed to be properly setup, tested and maintained. Factories should take responsibility in training the staff to handle the equipment and should be allowed to work under supervision of the expert. Small failures and irresponsibility can result in damage.
Human Failure
Small human errors end up at bringing heavy loss. More than 50% of the industry fire accidents are found to be the reason of negligence of human. Proper equipment knowledge and communication between person to person is necessary to warn if there is an outbreak and take further step to get the fire under control. While working in a hazardous environment employee should follow safety instructions. Operating speed and working conditions of the machinery should be noted and checked.
Environmental Failure
While following the measures to prevent the fire disaster to happen it is parallelly important to prepare people for evacuation. A house full of safety equipment go useless if there is no space or emergency door to escape. Ventilation is necessary for enough sunlight and air change. Factory layout and location also plays an important role in being a cause for the fire to increase.
Storage Failure
For factories that work with flammable substances, it is important to make necessary arrangements for its storage. Neglecting it is like giving a chance for the fire to ignite. Overloading the storage room makes it difficult to get the fire under control. It is also recommended to have the storage room of inflammable substances away from the machines where there are high chances of fire.
Safety equipment Failure
With growing fire accidents, government restrictions and self-awareness, factories are being equipped with safety measures. But those safety equipment’s comes with an expiry date, so it is important to check, repair and replace them whenever necessary. The fire suppression system doesn’t work to its fullest if there are faults in maintaining. So, maintaining is as important as setting the fire safety equipment.
Kitchen room Failure
Kitchen is the place of fire and victim of most of the accidents. Specifically, certain industries and factories which prepare food on a log fire whose disaster rate is high needs to make necessary arrangements. Kitchen should be far from the main building and must always run under the supervision of experienced personnel and Staff should act responsible by not leaving any unattended utensils or stoves.
To remove the slightest possible chances of fire from the room, it is mandatory to use appropriate safety equipment’s and good quality products.