Review of Fire Safety Legislation in Hong Kong
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In this paper, a review had been made to the fire safety legislation in Hong Kong. Relevant academic papers published in mainstream journals were also surveyed and discussed. It has been pointed out in the literatures that the local government is taking an “incremental” or “ad-hoc” approach in which fire legislation is added or expanded in response to every tragic fire incident without a total fire safety concept. It is further found that it is the worldwide trend in migrating towards performance-based fire codes (PBFC) to meet the global challenge on economic development and technological innovation. Moreover, fire safety management is strongly advocated to complete the total fire safety equation. While the fire record in Hong Kong is good in terms of number of fatalities and casualties, it is high time to re-think on the development and implementation of PBFC in Hong Kong. Suggestion on revamp of the current fire safety legislation will also be presented.
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