Safety water sprinkler system at emergency exit

An efficient safety system at workplace is crucial in order to ensure the workers can save themselves during emergency situation. Emergency exit is the only route for the victims to escape safely. The current problem that occurs is the existing fire sprinkler that installed at the ceiling cannot put out fire for wide area especially at emergency exit. Normally, the fire sprinkler is installed at the middle of corridor ceiling so that, the water cannot cover all the fire. Sometimes victims do not know the location of emergency exit due to the thick smoke so that covered the signboard. Fire fighter also has the difficulty to breach into the building through the emergency exit door because there is still fire. The main objective is to analyze the current safety features system at the workplace and residence then, determined an efficient safety system by designing and developing a safety water sprinkler system at emergency exit. Primary data was collected through an interview with Operating Officer of Fire Department and Rescuer Kangar, Perlis and Consulting Environmental, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers of Perunding HPL Sdn Bhd. For additional information, questionnaire survey was distributed to sixty of people who worked at office or live in flat or apartment. The design of product was simulated to identify the strength and durability of product by running a thermal stress analysis. The value of von misses stress and temperature was increased gradually. The new safety water sprinkler system was used water pump as pumping system. The safety system water sprinkler was installed at the top of emergency exit door and it can cover 2 meter of area. The safety system sprinkled water to clear the fire from block the emergency exit so that the victims can escape from the building within 4 minutes.