Preventing a fire can make the difference in the face of a tragedy, so attending to aspects of regulations and action protocols is essential for government authorities and businessmen.
Roberto Rivera Mier, director of New Businesses of Alliance Specialized Systems, highlighted the importance of municipal and state authorities having information regarding regulations, actions and measures that allow fire prevention, which include aspects of construction permits, civil protection, among others. Most of them in the area of city councils.
“This is a great differentiator, it is not about reaching out to companies, to the end consumer or with governments, and try to tell them what is right or what is wrong, but rather provide them with sufficient information so that decision makers, who analyze the issue, can make the best decision because it is a life theme"He said.
Alliance Specialized Systems is a Mexican/American company specialized in fire protection systems. It offers solutions in the design, supply, installation, commissioning, inspection and preventive and/or corrective maintenance of fire protection and security systems.
Rivera Mier acknowledged that there is little regulatory information in the country related to the issue of fire prevention.
“There is very few information, but there is much less knowledge of where we stand and where we should be standing as a country,” he adds.
For this reason, he said, it is necessary to continue with the task of informing in an adequate and timely manner about the tools, elements and personnel that exist to support local administrations. “Not only in an individual capacity, as a company, but as a union, as the National Fire Protection Council,” he said.
Advances and areas of opportunity
In this sense, the manager said that there is progress in some states and municipalities in the area of actions and regulations for fire prevention, such as San Pedro Garza García, in Nuevo León; Hermosillo, Sonora, as well as in the state of Baja California and Mexico City.
"There are municipalities that are very advantaged because they are visualizing, they are anticipating, and furthermore this is an issue that attracts foreign investment, establishes the conditions, establishes the appropriate bases to be able to establish competition as anticipated,” said Rivera Mier.
He indicated that much of the prevention of accidents falls on the construction regulations, which are issued by the city councils, so it is in this area - for example - that work can be done and supported so that the regulations and standards that are implemented can be established. requires.
Alliance Specialized Systems has worked with the municipality of Chihuahua, Hermosillo and Guadalajara.
Roberto Rivera Mier points out that the areas where there is greater investment in fire protection systems They are those in which there is more industrial development, due to the installation of factories and complexes; as well as in tourist sites, where the construction of hotels and other establishments takes place.
“There are several conditions when a property must have fire protection systems, and it basically has to do with what the construction materials are, what the dimensions are, what they are going to store and how many people are going to work there at a time. given,” he explained.
When these risk factors are taken into consideration, he added, that is when a risk evaluation is made and based on the parameters already established, the proposal is made to advance in the regulatory part.
“It is a very technical job, a very arduous job, but it already exists, and the most interesting thing is to see which one can be adopted the most,” he said. “And in this way we provide guarantees for investors, collaborators or consumers, to have the assurance that any property that has permission to operate has the necessary minimum security conditions.”
Source: mayorsdemexico.com