{"id":207176,"date":"2022-09-22T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=207176"},"modified":"2022-09-22T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:42:20","slug":"the-failure-of-safety-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-failure-of-safety-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"The failure of safety norms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cThe failure of safety norms\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>22th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Disaster and disaster management<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Fire safety norms<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the reason behind the incident of fire at a hotel in Telangana and the steps that need to take place to prevent such accidents.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What were the reasons behind the fire accident?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There was absence of set-back spaces and escape routes.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Fighting equipments were defunct.<\/p>\n<p>Spiral staircase around the elevator shaft.<\/p>\n<p>The basement was utilised illegally for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Absence of <strong>smoke management and emergency lighting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues with fire safety norms of the state government?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The <strong>Building Registration Scheme<\/strong> of the state government allowed builders to circumvent the norms.<\/p>\n<p>Applicability of fire safety norms is another issue. Only buildings above a certain height are required to seek safety clearance.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Amendment to fire safety norms to include all commercial buildings irrespective of their height within the ambit of fire safety norms.<\/p>\n<p>There should be proper enforcement of fire safety norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cThe failure of safety norms\u201d published in The Hindu on 22th September 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Disaster and disaster management Relevance&#8211; Fire safety norms News&#8211; The article explains the reason behind the incident of fire at a hotel in Telangana and the steps that need to take place&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-failure-of-safety-norms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The failure of safety norms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,11142],"class_list":["post-207176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}