DEVELOPMENT OF ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE FOR MEANS OF ESCAPE IN HOSPITAL’S BUILDING IN MALAYSIA

Hospital's fire is tragedy that needs to be avoided. However, when it occurs, it causes injuries, death, and may lead to losses for hospital's management and building. There is a need to ensure a safe means of escape is provided in a building for safe evacuation by the user. Previous researches were focusing on auditing checklist and analyzed by using qualitative method. However, this paper intended to enhance the research methodology from previous research by analyzing the audit checklist using weightings method. This is to ensure the results of auditing checklist become robust, acceptable and concurrently with result from previous research. The analysis starts by tabulating data gained from audit checklist into assessment grade. All detailed criteria for each design criteria were categorized according to the color codes that represents different general criteria. The grade score for detailed criteria were used to generate average grade score for general criteria mentioned before. Based on Fifth Schedule: Designation of Purpose Groups (UBBL 1984), weighting system that suitable to be selected corresponds to this study fall under group number II of purpose group which is Institutional. The results found that Hospital's A most complied with regulations outlined in acts.