Nigeria {of fire safety and fire fighting
By Augusine Togonu-Bickerstrth
There are fire accidents in Nigeria reported almost weekly and nothing significant seems to be going on as far as fire prevention is concerned in nigeria/
In the Uk fire safety is serious business. For instance, when you are visiting an
organization for the first time say, for an interview its part
Of the standard practice that you are shown where to turn to just in case there is a fire,
Secondly all public buildings are to have in place clearly visible instructions on fire. fire doors, fire extinguishers,fire alarms and assembly points in case of fire . so its a win win situation a lot of jobs are created along the value chain of the fire industry and UK is safer for it and richer for it.
Every wednesday at my institution, ThE University of East London, there is a fire drill. By the security department ,the fire alarm goes on and the whole buildings areas evacuated so that the occupants move to the assembly point to ensure know what to do in case there is a fire
.you can see at strategic locations on all floors, instructions on the walls of university of est london of what action to take if there is a fire.
You have to use the right fire extinguisher. for fire extinguishers are selected not arbitrarily but on the basis of a fire risk assessment.
There are six classes of fire{ See firerisk.co.uk} labeled A to F
The first are combustible materials fires .as a result of paper,plastic straw, coal, textile and furniture
The second class of fires are flammable liquids like petrol,diesel turpentine, paraffin , paint and ethanol etc
The third type of fires are flammable gasses like prp[ane butane etc
The fourth type of fire are combustible metals like magnesium,lithium aluminium ec
The fifth electrical fires from computers, tV . poor wiring etc
The sixth are cooking oils fires
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