Study of Fire Safety Management for Hospital Building

Fire can be useful tool, but it can also be a deadly nightmare. As the old proverb states, it is a good servant but a bad master. Safety management is a very important aspect of planning in every form of infrastructure, and especially for a hospital building. Fire can cause irreparable losses, to any hospital. Hospitals are infrastructures with a high density of life in terms of patients, doctors, staff etc. therefore utmost care needs to be taken and precautions followed to take in good safety measures and practices amongst planners, employees and health care workers in any hospitals. The aim of the study is to investigate the relevant fire safety management systems in hospital buildings. The scope of this study has been focused on the information gathering in various hospital in Amravati city, in order to accessing the existing state of fire safety management in Amravati city. The information is collected in the form of questionnaire from the hospital users, competent concerned gov dept., and the fire safety implementation personnel. The gathered information is then process to identify the current scenario of fire safety management of various hospitals. Fire safety management status is then categorized in the form of structure arrangement, water system management, equipment management, and organizational setup & electrical installation management.