The Chief Fire Officer, Albert Brown Gaisie, has disclosed that most media houses in the country fail to meet the basic safety requirement per the fire safety standards.
He noted that many of these media institutions are prone to fire outbreaks and workers are at risk of losing their lives as a result. He stated that these were the observations made after the Ghana National Fire Service conducted a fire safety audit in 83 media houses. The fire safety audit he noted, was conducted on MDAs and Media institutions.
“From 30th of June 2015- 30th June 2017 we conducted fire safety audit across the country in 1880 institutions. In recent times we have focused on media and MDAs. We have audited 83 media houses across the country” he asserted.
A.B. Gaisie was disappointed that many of the journalists and staff of media institutions had very little knowledge on basic fire safety.
Even though he declined to list the media houses that had faulted with the safety requirement, he stressed that a lot of them had improperly installed fire extinguishers, cables were painted, extinguishers were put behind curtains, had no smoke detectors and no sprinklers.
He said these intimated that these were not limited to only These he said made the offices, government institutions, studios and personnel very vulnerable to fire outbreak and its associated consequences.
Source: GhanaWeb
