Study of fire-fighting in the industrial buildings

Abstract

In recent decades, the world has saw large developed the industrial and urban and industrial cities especially so was keen researcher to shed light on the problem of fires factories that facing workers and destroy everything around them and to consider factories in support of the national economy field. It represented the importance of the study to propose a number of solutions to reduce the factories fires in Khartoum, fighting them and educate workers and training them on the importance of knowledge and to control of fire and means and methods, and to contribute to provide sufficient information for this area in to the library. The study depended on the descriptive analytical method using the questionnaire as study tool , then distributed the questionnaire to a random sample of Khartoum factories (including Industrial Zone in Bahri and industrial area of Omdurman, Khartoum's industrial zone) .and then reached through the analysis of the survey for a number of results the most important: - The inadequate and shortage laws and stipulations used and the lack of follow-up implementation, Lack of awareness of the concept of safety and fire-fighting at the factory owners and the community in Khartoum state, responsible for fire-fighting is collective responsibility to include all parties, 45% of the factories in Khartoum city applied fire-fighting of the existence of manual systems such as: (a fire extinguisher and hoses and fire and fire hydrant). Weak oversight and coordination between this competent bodies and VI factories administrations to put out the fire. Electricity is the major cause of most of fire incidents. The study came out with recommendations for combating the fire like the need of awareness and education of workers and the owner and the community, and impose deterrent penalties for those who do not abide by laws, and periodic review of electrical connections, the definitive work of each circle and connecting it line ground, attempting to provide the means and firefighting systems by low cost relatively by exempting of companies from customs duties, providing a hand extinguishers by sizes different fit with the type of smoldering material in factory , and the use of intelligent systems to monitor the extinguishing systems in factory.