Prediction of burn incidents due to faulty installations in RMG factories in Bangladesh

The readymade garment factories in Bangladesh experience large number of fire incidents every year. Most of the sources of the fire ignition are the electrical power distribution system. Faulty installations play a major role in electrical fire. This paper presents a prediction model of electrical fire due to faulty installations, particularly non-standard cable termination in the readymade garment factories in Bangladesh. The prediction model is based on the analysis of photographs of the factory electrical distribution boards, statistical data and simple laboratory experiments. Using the model total number of burn incidents per year in the power distribution boards of the RMG factories has been calculated. It shows that large number of such incidents happen every year some of which may result in devastating factory fire.