Fire Comments: Five Deficiencies in Disaster Prevention Training from Taiwan's King Peng Fire

After the Jing Peng fire, many experts mentioned that there was insufficient education and training for manufacturers. I think this is a fact. However, where there are insufficient and insufficiency, there is no in-depth review.

After the Jing Peng fire, many experts mentioned that there is insufficient education and training for manufacturers. I think this is a fact. However, in the end, there is no shortage of in-depth discussions. Therefore, this article will talk about what needs to be strengthened in disaster prevention training.

I. Insufficient fire training

In these years of major fires in Taiwan, whether it is factories or nursing homes, almost all of them had failed in the initial stage of firefighting. What is important is that these fires can be extinguished successfully through good education and training.

Many years ago, I discovered that Taiwan’s fire-fighting education had a lot of problems. The first is an imaginary story. The fire extinguishing drills in almost every place are to behave like they are and behave cheaply. As a result, the people involved think that they have learned.

The second is to get a good training, but also to find the wrong person, wrong training methods, leading to ineffective results. After I retired, I went to some listed companies to teach them to extinguish fire. In the past, they did training every year. However, according to my standards, they almost failed to pass.

Most of the initial fire extinguishing occurred in the interior, but most of the current fire extinguishing training is conducted outdoors, and it is not reasonable at all. In addition, at present the initial fire extinguishing training is a fire extinguisher for several people to practice, but a real fire, a person fired a few fire extinguishers, can not destroy the fire, but only a few people can play a fire extinguisher when practicing, so not fully practiced Training does not really work in the face of fire.

Most of the fire extinguishing training is carried out by using the oil pan to pour gasoline, but many fires are closed places, such as tunnel ovens, boilers, and wind pipes... In the face of various types of fires, the current stage of firefighting training is too simplified. Not enough to respond.

There are still many problems in fire-fighting training. When discussing the lack of fire safety education, I feel that the lack of such training at the moment is really a matter of review and can be effectively improved. Insufficient training in light talk only requires reinforcement to be of no avail.

Second, the lack of training depth

I have always wanted to teach everyone to be on the safe side. It needs to be systematic and continuous, but I've been to many units of speech training. I have also found an interesting phenomenon. The speech is like a reincarnation. I am looking for this year and I will seek it again every few years. With continuous circulation, only a few units will find me every year.

Afterwards, I carefully analyzed that many people think that safety lectures are similar and their content is similar. Therefore, people must be replaced to see what they can do to preserve their “freshness”. As everyone knows that there is no deep learning, it will always be fur, and naturally it cannot respond to the ever-changing disasters.

I took my team to practice the fire extinguishing. We practiced every year. At the beginning, I taught them the initial fire extinguishing, made video recordings, and saw everyone's achievements. When the results were practiced again in the second year, they forgot some of the skills. I taught again. In the third year, similar situations occurred again. I taught one more time. Slowly, I also figured out how to teach them. They would not Forget the essentials. Now each of them can act independently and have the ability to serve as an early fire-fighting teacher.

To achieve this result, there is only one essential point: that is to have the same master teacher, teach the same group of people, continue training, do a good job of deep learning, in order to defeat the enemy.

The major fires in Taiwan over the past few years have been the failure of initial fire extinguishing. What is important is that these fires can be extinguished successfully through good education and training.

Third, insufficient communication

After Jing Peng’s fire, many people accused Jing Peng of not providing plant layout drawings and dangerous goods data. I have read the list of PCB factory chemicals, said less than tens of pages, there are chemical names that most people do not understand, I do not know in such a short time, the fire brigade has the ability to digest the data?

This is not a matter for Peng Peng. It is not a problem for the fire department. This is a problem of communication and coordination. That is, many people talk about lack of education and training, but they have not clearly pointed out that part is insufficient. I think that lack of communication and communication is an urgent need for strengthening education and training.

When the factory conducts self-defense firefighting group drills, the firefighting unit has to dispatch its personnel to supervise all disasters in the United States. It must first do hazard analysis and risk assessment, but our education and training do not fully communicate in this section. The fire brigade plays the supervisory role, but most of them do not even know where the factory is most dangerous. The factory has not sufficiently informed these most dangerous areas and what dangerous articles are stored. Even if the fire brigade has a martial arts, it cannot give guidance on fire fighting skills to the remedy. It is the lack of communication and communication.

The expertise of the fire brigade is disaster response. Therefore, to minimize the disaster, first let the fire brigade know where the factory is most dangerous. The fire brigade can also provide past experience to the factory for reference. After full communication, I would like to educate in the future or Fire drills can be upgraded to completely different levels.

Self-defense fire group drills or fire drills should not be the same every year, except that fire extinguishers or discharges should be used. This does not help in disaster prevention training.

Insufficient exercise assessment

In education and training, there is also a very important part that is to exercise assessment. Now that many factories are co-located with domestic and foreign workers, I do not know what kind of educational training is required for foreign workers and foreign workers. Are they the same or different? If everyone wants to put out a fire, have anyone investigated foreign workers who found out that the fire dares to extinguish the fire? These trade unions will not be afraid of the loss of property after the fire. He needs to be responsible and hesitant. If it is an escape, can these foreign workers understand Chinese? Will you distinguish the sound of the fire siren? Too many problems in education and training assessment, without prior planning, there will be major problems.

Just like this King Peng fire, the people who were trapped at the beginning were different from the others who were the last to suffer. These are the results of improper assessment of education and training. When I helped some companies do evacuation drills, they deliberately left behind a few employees, and then verified whether or not each unit could actually name them. So far, almost none of the companies have been able to name them. This is the reason why training should be added to the assessment so that the problems can be identified and training can really be meaningful.

V. Software Improvement

After a fire, many factories began to spend a lot of money to purchase and improve hard equipment, but they did not think about how to save money, and what precautions should be taken in case of failure. In order to declare the determination of improvement, a lot of flashy equipment was installed in a short period of time. Just like this King Peng fire, much of the review went to the hardware and administrative procedures - running an exercise, buying a product, and opening a review meeting. - Because this is the easiest to do, it is also the easiest to see results.

Every time I see these saluting activities, I will have a question if we only know when the fire occurred, when it was extinguished, when the fireman entered the fire, and when it was carried out, and how the fire changed in the middle and when the brothers fired. What are the answers to the questions on the ground, why they fell to the ground, what happened to the fire when they fell to the ground, etc. If a lot of answers do not know, how can we find effective strategies for improvement?

Without a thorough understanding of the disaster occurrence process, there is no way to do hazard analysis and risk assessment. Without hazard analysis and risk assessment, there is no way to make a useful contingency plan and thoroughly understand the disaster occurrence process.

However, this is exactly the issue that lacks attention. It is also a dilemma that I believe must be solved in the future of safety education and training. Only by thoroughly understanding all the details of each disaster can we identify problems and propose truly constructive improvements.

I often say that "disaster response is like treating diseases and remedying the right medicine to survive." We can't condone for manufacturers who are deliberately ignorant. We are even more reluctant to see that they are not unmotivated, but are looking for mistakes. Method and direction.

Whenever a tragedy occurs, when the troublemakers in the community are guilty of stumbling, I would rather not demonize all the players first, but rather provide professional counselors with more professional guidance in a practical and realistic manner. Only the correct implementation of education and training can assist those who are determined to do a good job in disaster management to achieve true training, thereby ensuring the property of the factory and ensuring the safety of people.

Without thorough understanding of the disaster occurrence process, there is no way to do hazard analysis and risk assessment, and there is no way to be useful ... Without thorough understanding of the disaster occurrence process, there is no way to do hazard analysis and risk assessment, and there is no way to make Useful contingency plan.

Author: Lin Jinhong: Taiwan's former Minister of the Interior fire department fire officials.