Pemasangan Jeriji Keselamatan di Rumah

Sumber: http://www.bombapahang.gov.my

MASALAH berhubung kesan pemasangan grille (jeriji) telah banyak diperkatakan, khususnya tentang kebaikan dan keburukannya kepada penghuni rumah terutama di waktu kecemasan.

Fungsi jeriji ini berubah mengikut situasi dari aspek keselamatan pelepasan diri. Ia memberikan kesan buruk jika rekabentuk dan cara pemasangan tidak diberikan perhatian. Kes-kes kematian kerana mangsa terperangkap disebabkan halangan jeriji semakin kerap terjadi.

Faktor utama yang menyebabkan insiden mangsa terperangkap telah dikenalpasti oleh Jabatan Bomba Dan Penyelamat Malaysia. Ia adalah seperti berikut :

   (1) Pemasangan jeriji tingkap kecemasan jenis statik atau tetap.

   (2) Pemasangan jeriji tingkap kecemasan jenis bermangga /kunci

Jumlah mangsa terkorban akan meningkat selagi tidak diambil langkah-langkah yang positif dan pro-aktif bagi mengelakkan kejadian mangsa terperangkap ketika kebakaran.



PERMASALAHAN SEMASA

Terdapat kepercayaan umum bahawa kebakaran tidak akan berlaku di kediaman mereka.

Perhatian terhadap kaedah-kaedah keselamatan jeriji tingkap semasa kecemasan yang sesuai dan berkesan untuk menyelamatkan diri sering tidak dititikberatkan.

Risiko terperangkap didalam rumah kediaman jenis 2 dan 3 tingkat adalah lebih tinggi berbanding dengan rumah jenis setingkat kerana faktor jarak perjalanan (travel distance) yang lebih jauh dan sukar. Tetapi ini tidak bererti rumah setingkat lebih selamat sekiranya laluan kecemasan terhalang oleh bahan-bahan mudah terbakar dan pitu serta tingkap dipasang dengan jeriji jenis tetap

Kaedah-kaedah keselamatan kebakaran sepatutnya bermula daripada peringkat perancangan pembinaan rumah dan lebih-lebih lagi semasa rumah itu diduduki.

Terdapat banyak bangunan komersil dan rumah memasang pintu dan tingkap dengan jeriji jenis tetap sebagai langkah menghalang pencerobohan. Walaupun mengetahui risiko penggunaanya.

Faktor keselamatan (safety and security) jeriji tingkap kecemasan perlu diambil kira supaya ada keseimbangan untuk di pasang dijenis-jenis projek perumahan seperti berikut:

   - Rumah kediaman pekerja (asrama)

   - Rumah teres (konkrik) 1,2 dan 3 tingkat.

   - Rumah kelompok (cluster) 4 unit.

   - Rumah pangsa kos rendah/sederhana.


PEMASANGAN JERUJI YANG SESUAI

Rekabentuk dan cirri-ciri keselamatan yang diperlukan adalah separti berikut:

    (1) Jeruji tanpa kunci yang mudah di buka dari dalam premis ketika kebakaran.

    (2) System pengunciannya perlu mempunyai cirri-ciri berikut:

            - Mudah dibuka oleh orang dewasa, tua dan kanak-kanak termasuk orang kurang upaya                  seperti cacat anggota (berkerusi roda) dan sebagainya.

            - Tidak berkarat.

            - Tahan lama dan tidak perlu penyelenggaraan yang rumit.

Salah satu unsur terpenting ketika membuka jeriji tingkap kecemasan adalan sistem penguncian. Oleh yang demikian bagi mengelakkan sabarang kemungkinan kerosakan, sistem pembukaan seharusnya tidak mengandungi sebarang komponen yang memerlukan penyelenggaraan rapi.

Pemasangan jeriji tingkap kecemasan sesuai ditempatkan dilokasi seperti berikut:

        - Bilik tidur. 

        - Ruang tamu.

Tempat lain yang dikenalpasti oleh jabatan bomba dan penyelamat Malaysia sebagai laluankecemasan ketika kebakaran.

Keselamatan Rumah

Setiap kali tibanya Hari Raya, pasti sesetengah kita akan berdebar-debar untuk meninggalkan rumah. Tambahan pula jika jiran tertangga bukan lah penduduk tempatan yang akan meraikan Aidilfitri di kawasan kediaman kita. 

Saya sendiri telah mengalaminya sebanyak dua kali. Dua kali rumah kami dipecahkan untuk mendapatkan beberapa ringgit dari tabung simpanan syiling. Isu nya bukan lah kerana nilai yang hilang, tetapi lebih kepada keselamatan rumah kediaman kita. Perasaan tidak selamat dan sentiasa di hantui perasaan bimbang ketika kembali kerumah bukan lah sesuatu yang sihat.

Kawasan yang saya diami juga mempunyai rondaan polis dua kali sehari. Di waktu malam kelibat sinar lampu siren polis sudah membuatkan si pencuri menyembunyi kan diri buat seketika. Mungkin operasi akan disambung semula sesudah itu.

Apakah yang boleh kita lakukan? Hanya doa yang di pohon, selain menambah dan memperbaiki "grille" di sana sini dan memasang lampu di dua kawasan anjung.

Alhamdulillah, berkat mengamalkan ayat kursi (Rujuk al-Quran Surah al-Baqarah ayat 255) yang di baca sambil mengelilingi rumah telah menjauhkan rumah kami daripada sang pencuri sehari dua ini.

Bacalah dengan penuh keyakinan kerana hanya kebesaran Allah s.w.t jua lah yang menentukan segalanya...

Adakah Ais untuk minuman sejuk anda selamat?

Ada yang mengatakan terdapatnya bakteria merbahaya seperti e-coli di dalam ais yang kita minum. Mungkin jawapan nya ada disini : http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/

H1N1: Two Singaporeans die from swine flu

SINGAPORE: Two Singaporeans died today from Influenza A (H1N1), bringing the total number of swine flu-related deaths in the city-state so far to three. 

A 13-year-old boy who was suffering from epilepsy and admitted to the National University Hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) last Sunday and diagnosed with H1N1 flu died this morning. 

The cause of the boy’s death was due to prolonged seizures, with H1N1 flu infection as a contributing factor, according to the Health Ministry in its latest update on the flu. 

In another case, a 55-year-old man suffering from a motor neuron disease and admitted to Changi General Hospital (CGH) ICU last Saturday, and also diagnosed with the swine flu died this afternoon. 

The ministry said the man died from severe pneumonia with advanced motor neuron disease and underlying H1N1 flu. 

In the first Singapore H1N1 flu-related death, a 49-year-old man with heart problems died at the CGH last week. - Bernama

Source: NST Online

Taman Rekreasi dan Mini Zoo Kemaman

My family had been visiting the Kemaman Mini Zoo and recreational park during last weekend. Congratulations to the state government who has successfully equipped this area with another public “entertainment” facility. The simplified map as shown below. However, Malaysian still Malaysian… despite the very nice facility we still simply throwing the rubbish everywhere. Yes we are paying RM 5 per entry, but still the cleanliness is everybody responsibility. Malaysians! Wake-up.

AIR FRANCE Flight 447

The French agency investigating the disaster said airspeed instruments on the plane had not been replaced as the maker had recommended, but cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions about what role that may have played in the crash.
The agency, BEA, said the plane received inconsistent airspeed readings from different instruments as it struggled in a massive thunderstorm.
Search crews have recovered 24 bodies (@09 June ) so far and found the vertical stabilizer from the tail section of the A330-200 plane, which could help narrow the hunt for the black boxes to determine why the jet crashed.

The data and voice recorders are located in the fuselage near the tail section of the jet.
Investigators are considering the possibility that the plane's external speed monitors - called Pitot tubes - that may have iced over and gave dangerously false readings to cockpit computers in a thunderstorm.

According to the Airbus Web site, total orders for the A330 twin-engine passenger planes so far stood at 956, of which 669 have been delivered.

Some 614 jets are operating worldwide - 269 of the larger A330-300 series and 345 of the shorter fuselage A330-200 jets, it said. - AP

Virus H1N1 a.k.a virus babi

Pelbagai penyakit ganjil kini menyerang dunia kita. Mengapa??......

Toilet king of Malaysia calls it a day

Unfinished business: Lau is giving up the seat as the chairman of Quality Restroom Association Malaysia (QRAM) as he became the Deputy Transport Minister last month.

By FOONG PEK YEE (thestar.com.my)

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s “toilet king” is stepping down next month after a five-year reign.
Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, who earned the nickname for his tireless effort in fighting for clean public toilets in the country, said: “It is an unfinished business but I have to move on.”
The 67-year-old accountant-turned-politician was inducted into the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s clean toilet campaign when he was the deputy minister in 2004.
His mission came to an end when he was appointed Deputy Transport Minister last month.
Lau is best remembered for setting up the first toilet association in Malaysia — Quality Restroom Assocation Malaysia (QRAM) — of which he has been chairman since its inception in 2005.
The Sibu MP said he is not seeking re-election at the QRAM annual general meeting to be held next month.
He said it is time for the Government to wield the stick on the country’s 148 local authorities so that they were serious in making sure that the 250,000 public toilets within their jurisdictions are clean.

“Only 60 local authorities took part in a star-rating programme for public toilets last year,” he lamented.

Previous news regarding QRAM Campaign

Cara menggunakan tandas duduk

Gambar signage ini di ambil di satu tandas yang saya "kunjugi". Ia mengajar cara menggunakan tandas duduk yang betul. Tandas di stesen LRT juga memaparkan gambar yang hampir serupa. Ia adalah penting, kerana terdapat kes kecederaan parah yang melibatkan cara penggunaan tandas duduk yang salah. Patuhi lah undang-undang walaupun di dalam tandas :) 

Bangkok beats London in carbon pollution

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Residents of the Thai capital produce as much carbon pollution as New Yorkers and more than Londoners, a U.N.-backed study released on Thursday shows.
The report, "Bangkok: Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009", underscores the city's carbon-intensive habits but also highlights the threat to Bangkok from rising seas caused by global warming.
A man walks past cars during rush-hour traffic in Bangkok in this May 4, 2007 file photo. Residents of the Thai capital produce as much carbon pollution as New Yorkers and more than Londoners, a U.N.-backed study released on Thursday shows. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif/Files)

"In per-capita terms, Bangkok was responsible for producing 7.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per annum in 2007," said the report by the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority and the Bangkok-based Green Leaf Foundation, with support from the United Nations Environment Programme.

That was the same level of emissions produced by New Yorkers in 2007. Londoners produced 5.9 tonnes per capita.

Transport and electricity generation were the main sources of greenhouse gases in Bangkok, the report said.
The paper based its calculations on the city's official population of six million but up to twice that number are believed to live in the city, many of them seasonal workers from the countryside.

Low-lying Bangkok is near the mouth of the Chao Phraya River and is already prone to flooding. In future, more days above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) were expected, along with a jump in cases of malaria and other diseases, the report said.
The maximum forecast temperature in Bangkok on Wednesday is 38 deg C, the Thai Meteorological Department said.
"The impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change on Bangkok are likely to be quite severe," said the report.
It said just over half the city would be affected by floods if the mean sea level were to rise by 50 centimetres (20 inches), and 72 per cent of the city would be affected if the mean sea level were to rise by one metre.
Land subsidence caused by over-pumping of ground water was already a major problem, along with contamination of water supplies, and both were expected to get worse as the city's population grows, it added.
The city's administration has launched a campaign to cut emissions by 15 percent by 2012 by expanding mass transit, promote renewable energy, expand parklands and improve energy efficiency.
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