TY  - JOUR
T1  - Understanding Perception of Fire Risk from Petrol Station’s Workers
AU - Shamsuri Khalid, Mohd AU - Rahman Songip, Ahmad AU - Musri, Mohtar AU - Abu Bakar, Nooh AU - Chua, Mukhlis 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 9
SP  - 2352
EP  - 2360
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.2352.2360
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.2352.2360
KW  - Fire risk
KW  -Petrol Fuel Station (PFS)
KW  -Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
KW  -catastrophic
KW  -non-major hazard installations
AB  - This research is about the perception of fire risk and its function of petrol station. Fewer researched
in understanding perception of risk in petrol fuel station among its workers. Any prolong of the issues might
cause catastrophic in case of leakage, pollution and fire to gas explosion engulf with it. Therefore, a need of
qualitative research to carry out to justify the perception of risk not just to the workers but also to give a
general information of risk precautions to the people living vicinity of the petrol fuel station. However, Petrol
Fuel Station (PFS) category as a hazardous workplace. All flammable substances such as petrol, diesel and CNG
are stored either underground or above ground. It is a place where various mode of transportation fuelling and
refuelling at every hours. Due to the existing of the flammable substance at PFS pose a potential hazard to the
staff, public, property and environment. A simple mismanagement could cause catastrotophic. The issue of risk
in petrol station always regards as important since the workplace has been category as non major hazard
installation. Nevertheless, the consequences of disaster are very huge. Therefore, it is very crucial to
investigate in conducting and questioning of the perception of risk towards petrol fuel station. The qualitative
approach will consists of reviewing design drawings (documents), semi structure interview, observation at the
premise and analysis to determine and acknowledge the perception of risk among the workers. The research
results shows that there is indeed a needs to understand the perception of risk characteristic in order to improve
a good practice of especially petrol fuel station in Malaysia. The findings are very precious in better
understanding of risk, mitigation plan and formulate a new proposal to the government especially the authority
regards to petrol fuel station. The further research should also focus on the risk emulate with the petrol station
in future.
ER  -