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In case of fire safety, the laws are neither adequately strong,
nor serious penal action
is
effected unless the life losses & consequential losses
affecting the common people are
involved.
There is no Government authority strongly equipped with
adequately qualified manpower
who can visit to check on periodic basis more seriously in the
domain of fire safety and
installations as done in case of EHS .
Unfortunately the property loss is taken as an individual loss
to owner and not
much thought is given to the !ational "oss# though it is almost
a crime which should not be
pardonable.
• $ire safety is taken as implied inclusion. There is no
e%pressed mention.
• &t goes without saying that the implied version and
e%pressed version differ a lot
in result.
• Earlier'
• (fter the discontinuance of T()' for last *+ years,-
• &n a way $ire Safety is somewhat a neglected
portfolio.
Tariff (dvisory )ommittee -opularly known as T()' used to visit
industries to help
and achieve fire risk minimi/ation through their general risk
inspection' electrical
installation
check up and approval0audit of $ire safety installation
&t is curious to observe that in 1Safety olicy2 which is a
very important document' the
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