With the change of the economic structure, most of the old industrial buildings built before 1972 inHong Kong are now used as offices or non-industrial workplaces. Those old building might not haveadequate fire safety provisions and it is difficult to upgrade these hardware provisions too. Theoccupational safety and health problems on fire safety are even more serious if the offices are use forsmall and medium enterprises which have special characteristics of small areas packed with largequantity of combustibles and high occupant loading.
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