Webinars: "Warehouse Fire Safety Management"
Description:
Warehouses of today in India, which used to be dilapidated buildings called godowns a few decades ago, have now become the backbone of manufacturing and e-commerce industry. Modern warehouses and storage occupancies are especially subject to rapidly developing fires of great intensity, because complex configuration of storage and building layout are usually conducive to fire spread, presenting numerous obstacles to manual fire suppression efforts. The only proven method of controlling a warehouse fire is with properly designed, installed, and maintained automatic sprinkler systems.
The fire hazard of a warehouse or storage occupancy is a function of the commodity or the material in storage, the method of packaging, and the storage arrangement. Fire development in storage area depends on the material, ease of ignition, flame spread rate, and the heat release rate. Often a judgment concerning the hazard of the storage is based on the commodity with little thought given to the methods of packaging and the storage arrangements. For example, a metal part stored on wooden pallet poses a low threat of fire. However, if the same part is packaged inside a multilayer cardboard carton with expanded polystyrene foam packaging material, the fire hazard is greatly increased. Plastics are increasingly used as part of the product as well as packaging.
