There are many factors that cause the fire to occur. Identifying these risks has a great importance in terms of preventing the occurrence of fire, extinguishing after the fire occurs, ensuring life safety, preventing or reducing the occurrence of property loss, and protecting business continuity.

Karina uses Risk Management as a tool to achieve cost effective and safe design for studies that is requested by clients. This service includes a wide range of different analysis types and methodologies. It could be a fire risk analysis for all problems and projects, a cost benefit analysis regarding the incorporation of fire protection system for a building, or a comparative study to evaluate different life and fire safety design.

Risk assessment is becoming recognised by the industry and regulation, as the essential method for determining well engineered fire safety requirements. The main aim of assessing fire risk is usually for life safety, however two other areas of risk should also be considered. Property protection and business continuity are equally important specifically regarding damage to buildings causing loss of income due to interrupted service.

Karina’s approach uses a scientifically based risk ranking tool to assess properties. This enables properties to be benchmarked against each other and spending prioritised to achieve the best return on investment. Karina evaluate the potential impact and probability of each risk. Decision makers can then evaluate which mitigation efforts to prioritize within the context of the organization’s strategy, budget, and timelines. Karina can use all risk assessment methodologies and take several approaches to assess risks. Such as;

 Quantitative

Quantitative methods bring analytical rigor to the process. Assets and risks receive dollar values. The resulting risk assessment can then be presented in financial terms that executives and board members easily understand. Cost-benefit analyses let decision makers prioritize mitigation options.Quantitative methods can also be quite complex. In addition, some organizations do not have the internal expertise that quantitative risk assessments require.

 Qualitative

Where quantitative methods take a scientific approach to risk assessment, qualitative methods take a more journalistic approach. Assessors meet with people throughout the organization. Employees share how, or whether, they would get their jobs done should a system go offline. A qualitative risk assessment provides a general picture of how risks affect an organization’s operations.

 Semi-Quantitative

Some organizations will combine the previous methodologies to create semi-quantitative risk assessments. Using this approach, organizations will use a numerical scale, such as 1-10 or 1-100, to assign a numerical risk value. Risk items that score in the lower third are grouped as low risk, the middle third as medium risk, and the higher third as high risk.

 Vulnerability / Threat Based

Vulnerability-based methodologies expand the scope of risk assessments beyond an organization’s assets. This process starts with an examination of the known weaknesses and deficiencies within organizational systems or the environments those systems operate within. From there, assessors identify the possible threats that could exploit these vulnerabilities, along with the exploits’ potential consequences.

Threat-based methods can supply a more complete assessment of an organization’s overall risk posture. This approach evaluates the conditions that create risk. An asset audit will be part of the assessment since assets and their controls contribute to these conditions.

Choosing the Right Methodology

None of these methodologies are perfect. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Fortunately, none of them are mutually exclusive. Whether intentionally or by circumstance, organizations often perform risk assessments that combine these approaches.

Design

Measures taken to prevent fire are issues such as passive protection, smoke control systems and establishment of escape opportunities. We inform our employers about the places where protective stairs should be built, the width of the escape routes, the emergency lighting and directioning systems to be installed to decrease the evacuation time and make the escape safe.  Separating the building into compartments with fire resistant partitions provides an advantage in preventing fire spread and keeping the fire in a small area. Manual or automatic suppression systems existance prevents the spread of the fire until the fire brigade intervenes.  We also provide extinguishing design systems drawings, determination of water tank capacity and other complementary systems, hydraulic calculations, smoke exhaust system calculations.

Complete fire safety can only be achieved through an interdisciplinary system solution. Hence our system design is handled by a design team consisting of architect, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, chemical engineer, last but not the least human factor analyst. While some of the disciplines are inherent to our company staff, some others are project-basis part-time contributions, depending on the problem, project.

System design service includes system solution, computer aided drafting, computer aided engineering, engineering calculations.

Design services are presented as;

• Project Identification
• Cost Estimate
• Technical Specifications
• Performance Based
  Design
• Preliminary Design
• Detailed Design
• Shop Drawings
• As-built Drawings