Fire resistant doorsets, also known as fire doors, are ubiquitous in commercial buildings and residential buildings such as condominiums and apartments.

While great improvements have been made in fire safety over the last generation, the one remaining challenge is the place we feel safest – our own homes…

In recent years, electronic media has become part of people’s everyday life and emerged as a popular means for providing new sources of information and rapid communications.

The Fire Protection Accreditation Scheme (FPAS) is a voluntary accreditation scheme for the fire protection industry in Australia. It was launched on 1 July 2013 by Fire Protection Association Australia (FPA Australia).

The advent of technology has brought upon the rail industry to move large quantity of people using trains. Trains generally carry large amount of people and will be susceptible to a higher potential of casualties in the event of a tunnel fire compared to a road tunnel.The author of this article hopes that the application of fire engineering is able to mitigate or prevent the risk of fire in the rail industry in Malaysia and therefore contribute towards a safer rail environment.