[TALK - 2CPD ] EVENING TALK: “DON’T GIVE FIRE A CHANCE”

BEM Approved

CPD/PDP Hours: 2

Ref. No.: IEM19/PG/290/T

EVENING TALK:  “DON’T GIVE FIRE A CHANCE”

Date                     : 01 July 2019 (Monday)

Time                     : 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

Venue                  : IEM Penang Secretariat 

Synopsis

Currently, the population of Malaysia is 34 million. Have you ever thought about the number of firefighters in Malaysia? The answer is 14,000, which means that on average, 1 firefighter would have to save 2000 people’s lives! Even if our firefighters sacrifice their lives to save ours, it is still not enough as our population severely outnumbers the firefighters. So how do we reduce the casualties and the loss of human lives in a fire incident more effectively? The answer is to increase fire prevention awareness to everyone and to spread life-saving survival skills during a fire.

“Fire Destruction Is One Man’s Job, Fire Prevention Is Everybody’s Job.”

The occurrence of fire is not necessarily by accident, it occurs due to our ignorance and negligence about fire and we take it for granted that these incidents would not happen to us. A fire can happen in many ways that we do not expect. In recent years, the number of fire incidents in office buildings has increased, even though most office buildings are fully equipped with fire safety equipment. So why are fire incidents still happening? Let's discuss together the reason behind the happenings of these fire incidents in this seminar.

This seminar is the product of cooperation between Fire Preventors Society and Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia (Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia) to educate and raise fire prevention awareness to the public, including the practicing engineers and professionals. This seminar will enable the participants to understand the importance of fire prevention, the concept and essentials of the building layout design for fire escape, as well as the basic knowledge on fire safety equipment.

 Topic Covers:

• Fight or Flight
• How to prevent fire incidents
• Causes of fire
• Building layout and fire escape routes
• Firefighting equipment
• How to differentiate the stages of a fire incident
• How to react in a fire incident
• Life-saving survival techniques
• The importance of emergency assembly points
• How to plan an evacuation route.
• Awareness on fire prevention
• Spreading fire prevention awareness culture in Malaysia.

This seminar will not only allow the audience to gain more knowledge on how to prevent fire incidents from happening, the participants will also learn the basic knowledge behind building layout for fire escape, firefighting equipment, as well as the right way to react when there a fire breaks out. Let's work together to spread this fire prevention culture into our society. Together we can make the world a better place!!!

Biodata of Speaker

DARREN YEE PENG HUA holds Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from University Science Malaysia in 2006. After his career as Sales Consultants / Executive from 2007 to 2013, he joined Fire Preventors’ Society Kuala Lumpur as a Full Time Lecturer in 2014.  He had attended Fire Safety Training at Johor Bahru Fire & Rescue Station in 2014 and Fire Safety Training in Fire & Rescue Academy of Malaysia (Kuala Kubu) in 2017.  

Darren is well equipped with fire prevention awareness knowledge.  He has an extensive experience in providing fire safety awareness seminar to the public including in hospitals, university / college, government offices, schools, banks and insurance companies.

• Closing Date: Registration should reach us latest by 28 June 2019 or when registration is full, whichever is earlier.
• Walk-in registration will only be accepted if vacant seat is available.
• Registered member participant shall attend the seminar himself/herself personally. In the event a representative has been sent to attend, the representative must be a member of the same grade, otherwise the difference in registration fee must be paid before admission is allowed.
• Attendance by representative will not be issued with the Certificate of Attendance.
• All participants are to present their NRIC card for verification upon signing for attendance.

Registration with Payment: on a ‘first-come-first-served’ basis.

• Fee is non-refundable and non-transferable
• Substitution of participants will be allowed.
• If fail to attend the event, the fee paid will not be refunded.