MEANS OF ESCAPE ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE FOR HOSPITAL'S BUILDING IN MALAYSIA

Fire safety is important specifically in hospital’s building. Evacuation during hospital fire is a complex phenomenon due to restriction of the movement capability of the patient. This paper explored the criteria and attributes for identifying the current fire safety conditions in a hospital’s building. All design criteria were extracted from the past literature as well as relevant acts to produce observational instrument. Preliminary survey (observation) done by inspection to the building and was carried out with officer from the hospital’s building. The observational instrument was analyses using qualitative method. The results found that only one out of three hospital’s building allocate the refuge area in the hospital’s building. Other than that, the recommendations has been generalized which could help in improving the safety level of means of escape in hospital’s building.