Assessment of the implementation of fire protection regulation acts in public buildings in Kano Metropolis

Abstract

The study was designed to assess the implementation of fire protection regulation act in public buildings in Kao Metropolis. Two research question and two null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The target population for the study comprises of 378 subjects 150 Building Facility Officers, 139 Fire Service Staff and 89 Local Building Officers. A purposive sampling technique was used to choose public building with high records of fire outbreak and mass population density of people in carrying out their day to day activities. The instrument for data collection is a structured questionnaire titled "Questionnaire on Assessment of the Implementation of Fire Protection Regulation Act in Public buildings (QAIFPRAPB)" The questionnaire was validated by 3 experts. One (1) Lecturer in the Department of Industrial and Technology Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna and Two (2) Chief Fire Officer from Municipal Local Government, Kano State Fire Service Headquarters in Kano State. Cronbach Alpha statistic method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument to be 0.89. Data collected for this study was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and ANOVA. Mean will be used to answer the research questions while ANOVA will used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the fire protection regulation requirements on the issuance of fire certificate to put up public building in Kano Metropolis are moderately implemented while few aspects were nor implemented and also revealed that the fire protection regulation on the provision of firefighting equipment in public buildings in Kano Metropolis moderately implemented. Although the finding also showed few of fire protection regulation on the firefighting equipment were not implemented. It was recommended that the fire service staff, local building inspectors and building facility manager should ensure that no construction of any public building without issuance of fire safety certificate in Kano Metropolis and government should ensure that no public building is put to use without adequate fire-fighting equipment as stipulated in the fire protection regulation act