Due to the stable growth of our economy and the sharp increase of national income, economic activities has become more prosperous, and thus people go to public places more often than before. So the safety of public place has become highly related to the people's lives at present time.

There are many factors affecting the security of public places. We can judge them from four respects: consuming place, taking refuge, difficulty of rescue, and outside management.

With regard to a consuming place, consumers should pay attention to the following four conditions:

1. If there is a sign attached to show this place a dangerous building unqualified for examination of public security.
2. If the place is located in an abasement with highly frequent usage.
3. If there is only elevators, but no exit doors.
4. If a great plenty of easily-burned materials, such as carpets and curtains, etc., are used for decoration.

With regard to taking refuge and escaping, consumers should pay attention to the following four conditions:

1. If the escaping passages, such as halls (or corridors), and staircases are impeded with any obstacles.
2. If exits are entirely blocked up.
3. If fire lanes are entirely blocked up.
4. If the veranda of top floor for taking refuge has been full of regulation-violating constructions.

With regard to the difficulty of rescue, consumers should pay attention to the following four conditions:

1. If the place is difficult for firemen to enter to rescue people during fire disaster.
2. If the emergency entrances are entirely blocked up.
3. If the doors and windows are additionally set with structures of iron or stainless materials.
4. If the entrances and exists for emergency are covered by any objects for advertisement.

With regard to outside management, consumers should pay attentions to the following four conditions:

1. If there is any automobile or motorcycle parking disorderly in front of gate.
2. If the arcade has been piled up with miscellaneous objects or odds and ends.
3. If entrances and exits are instructed clearly.
4. If entrance and exits are impeded with obstructive.

When you are going to a public place, please refer to the Table of Security Diagnosis to check those dangerous public places. If you do find somewhere dangerous, please don't enter or make consumption there, and at the same time inform local government regulators actively. Let's protect our own consumption interests together.

The Concise Table of Security Diagnosis to Security of Public Places

1. Are there escaping exits in two different directions?
   　
2. Can the exits be opened outward easily?
   　
3. Are the emergency staircase kept unimpeded?
   　
4. Are the entrances of elevators unimpeded?
   　
5. Are the downsides of automatic rolling doors around escalators empty and clean?
   　
6. Are there maps showing escaping routs attached on significant places and balconies?
   　
7. Are the corridors and passages or aisles wide enough? ( miscellaneous objects must not be piled up there to impede people passing through. )
   　
8. Are there instruction lights to lead escaping routs set up on corridors, passages, and places which the aisles turn around?
   　
9. Are there instruction lights on top of exits?
   　
10. Are instruction lights for guiding escaping directions and the exit lights bright?
    　
11. Are fire extinguishers put at obvious places where the fire extinguishers can be taken easily?
    　
12. Are fire extinguishers labeled clearly the valid dates? Do the needles for indicating pressures stay in the green normal range?
    　
13. Can indoor fireplugs be taken and used easily?
    　
14. Can the opening of the place where refuge-taking facilities (such as slowly descending devices, emergency staircases and slowly descending tubes) are set can be opened easily?
    　
15. Are passages(or aisles) and balconies installed fire alarms, emergency broadcast and emergency lights?
    　
16. Do the openings of windows have emergency entrance marked by signals of red triangles?
    　
17. Is there a liscense for use or a certification of registration for profit-making incorporation suspended on the wall?

Provided by National Fire Administration, Ministry of Interior.

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