Upgrading Fire Safety Strategies for the Existing Non-residential Occupancies in Taipei City.

Abstract: Taipei City Government takes into consideration of the influence of urban environmental safety on tourism and government stability through the implementation of check mechanism to control the building safety. Additionally, the mayor carries out joint checking at non- residential occupancies by forming the Joint Committee of Public Safety in an attempt to warn building users about strict prohibition of illegal behaviors. Despite these efforts, the City Government still detects the need on the regulatory instruments due to the review on fire incidents taken place at non-residential occupancies over the last three years as well as the “fire risks of existing legal buildings under human behaviors on specific time and in specific space.” This paper explores into the fire safety management mechanism for government agencies at all levels and discovers that the assessment on the “total fire safety” can in fact reduce fire risks. Hence the concept of total fire safety should be carried out through different measures of fact-oriented thinking. The Joint Committee of Public Safety serves as the highest management agency for coordinating the fire safety within the city and actively carrying out fire safety work using the concept of “total fire safety” to help bring the fire safety methods for non-residential occupancies into full play [Copyright &y& Elsevier]