Acceptable Risk free essay sample

Each year there are millions of people who die or are injured all around the globe due to the fires at work. Although, it is not just the loss of life that a country has to deal with, it is the damage to land and property and loss of businesses. Once a fire breaks out on a fertile agricultural land, the land becomes infertile for quite some time. Such incidents reduce the production and the output of the country per year, reducing the compensation of the employees, whose income is highly dependent on agriculture. This is just one trivial example of how such events destroy land and take away lives. When it comes to responsibility of such events, it is not just the government that is to blame. Every citizen is responsible for his own actions. In this report, I shall be covering some of the incidents that have taken place after 9/11 and all the preventive measures that can be taken to avoid these fire events. There is a lot that can be done to prevent all the fire events that take place. There is no doubt that not a lot can be done, but, the number of casualties can definitely be decreased. In this research report we will be discussing some of the main incidents that have taken place after September 9, 2001, which depict the structural loss and loss of lives caused due to the fire events that have taken place in the world. In addition to that, in the end we shall be discussing what strategy the government has come up with, in order to reduce and avert such tragedies. The government has come up with a five-step process called Risk Assessment. In which each individual and each event is dealt with separately. This enables the people to have a clear-cut idea of as to how to deal with such situations. (Henry, 2001) Let’s see what really caused the collapse of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. We all know that, the two hijacked planes which were heading in totally different directions were made to crash the two towers. This crash caused a fire and the towers were like a lit candle for quite some time. And then the building collapsed. There is something that is bizarre about this situation. How is it possible for a building, so well-developed, a multi-million dollar project, estimated to be standing for more than 20 years without repair – fell and collapsed, causing a cloud of dust and smoke? This is not the only thing, there were fire extinguishers and fire alarms in the building which go off whenever there is a smoke of fire or if the office appliance catches fire. But none of that happened. Now, the official reason that is given by various observers is that the fire caused the building to heat and the temperature was rose way above 800 °C, which caused the building to collapse. The laboratory director who came up with this figure and statement was fired after the actual temperature of the building was found to be no more than 500 °C. One of the eye witnesses said that the real damage that was caused to the building which caused it to collapse was the â€Å"size† of the fire. Although the building had an efficient fire protection system in place, the plane 767 crashed through the wall, inside the building, destroying the main fire protection devices inside the building. This witness was present in the first tower of the World Trade centre, who witnessed and survived the collapse. The other witness that was present in the other World Trade Centre tower also claimed that the fire spread in World Trade Centre II was due to the size of the fire and also claimed that the fire spread inside the building within seconds burning everything that was in its way. Because of the fire, the building’s iron rods started to melt and poured down inside the building melting the office supplies and the rest of the things that were inside the building, ultimately destroying not only the infrastructure of the building which caused the collapse of the building but, it also destroyed the fire protection systems. It was later estimated that the heat that was produced by the fire caused by the plane crash is approximately equal to the heat produced by a nuclear generating station. But the real mystery is that, despite all this, the building was suppose to be standing still, at last it was a very strong building, but it collapsed. This is how destructive a fire event can be. This mystery of as to why the fire caused in building collapsed, despite the fire protection systems, is still unknown. (Frankel,2001) Above described is just one incident, which is pretty much known through out the world not as a collapse of two great towers but as 9/11. After 9/11 a lot of incidents took place, that could have been prevented, but the effort of the fire extinguishers again resulted in vain. On October 18, 2004, in the city of Venezuela, the tallest building that was standing in Venezuela, caught fire and collapsed. It was the tallest skyscraper in Venezuela and was a very important government building. The cause of the fire was reported to be an inflammable materials present inside the building, ignited and caused the collapse of the tallest building there. The ignition caused the explosion of the windows, and the tallest skyscraper was like a lit candle for more than 17 hours. By this time, all the floors from the 34th floor to the top of the building were burnt. No fatalities were caused do to the ignition, but the people present inside the building and especially the fire extinguishers, suffered from toxic inhalation problems. There were a lot of witnesses that were interviewed, which included eye witnesses and the survivors of this incident.