Inadequate safeguards against fire

Many features of building construction are closely related to fire safety. Although the modern types of construction generally contain much less combustible material than the old plank-on-heavy-timber or joisted brick-walled buildings, they collapse much sooner when exposed to fire temperature. Unprotected steelwork fails at relatively low temperatures. In cases requiring fire-resistant construction such as hazardous occupancies, vital occupancies such as storage rooms, transformer rooms, electrical substations, laboratories, high-value occupancies where any serious fire would cause excessive property damage and production loss, and in multistorey buildings, fire-resistant construction is not always used.

In the UK in 1990 some £3.5 billion of military equipment was held in stores which did not meet government fire protection standards.

1. Violations of health and safety regulations
2. Inefficiency
3. Ineffective delivery of basic human resource services
4. Inadequate provision of public safety
5. Inadequacy of civil defence
6. Fires

1. Unreliability of self-extinguishing plastics
2. Lack of fire-fighting facilities
3. Lack of fire insurance
4. Fireworks as a hazard

1. Urban fires
2. Property damage
3. Prohibitive cost of basic services
4. Interruption risk
5. Injurious accidents
6. Inflammable and flammable substances
7. Inadequate housing
8. Wildfires
9. Decline of traditional wild fire management

1. Suppression of information concerning environmental safety
2. Inadequate enforcement of environmental regulations
3. Inadequate building standards
4. Inadequacy of international standards

1. Protecting against fire hazards
2. Improving safeguards against fire

1. Unavailability
2. Protection
3. Overprotectiveness
4. Inadequacy
5. Hazard