The main principles of heat transfer are: Direct contact Conduction Radiation Convection Flashover BackdraughtContinue Reading

Dry chemical foam or powder fire extinguisher can effectively handle gas fire.Continue Reading

CO2 is a relatively clean gas that doesn’t react with burning materials, so it doesn’t create any toxic or other by-products when used to suppress a fire.Continue Reading

Carbon dioxide is normally used to suppress fire by depriving it of fuel, oxygen, or heat.Continue Reading

Most fire extinguishers work by eliminating one or more combustion elements e.g. separating the fuel from the oxygen.Continue Reading

Class A: burning flammable solids Class B: burning flammable liquids. Class C: Electrical equipment Class D: burning flammable metals Class K: burning cooking oils or fat.Continue Reading

Management of the fire triangle or combustion triangle i.e. oxygen, heat, fuel and chemical reaction.Continue Reading

Fire prevention involves reducing fuel for a fire, reducing or controlling ignition sources and keeping fuel and ignition sources apart.Continue Reading

Risk assessment is a term used to describe the overall process or method in technical risk management where we identify hazards and risk factors that have the potential to cause harm (hazard identification – HAZID); analyze and evaluate the risk associated with that hazard (risk analysis, and risk evaluation): and determine appropriate ways to eliminate...Continue Reading

Risk Assessment is the thorough and detailed process/assessment of hazard identification (HAZID), risk analysis, and risk evaluation.Continue Reading