A Literature Review of Fire Safety in Construction Sites

Year 2019, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 199 - 209, 21.03.2019

Hüseyin Başdemir

Abstract

Construction
projects are exposed to fire hazard in the same way as completed buildings. The
risk of fire increases due to the presence of large amounts of combustible
materials on construction sites, inadequately educated workers, welding,
cutting, drilling processes during construction, and unfinished fire prevention
and intervention systems. The aim of this study is to present the results of an
analysis of the national and international scientific literature on the subject
of “Construction site fire safety” in order to being able to cope with
such fires correctly by means of drawing the attention of the authorities
responsible, to the danger.

Keywords

Construction site, Fire safety

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