National Fire Protection Association

electric fire alarm” was invented by Francis Robbin Upton and Fernando Dibble in the late 19th century its purpose is to detect smoke in a room or other enclosed area and set of an audible alarm to alert nearby people to the impending danger. Smoke detectors provide many positive benefits when installed in the home such as lowering fatality rates, helping prevent small fires from turning into larger ones and some even detect carbon monoxide leaks. According to an NFPA report house fires where…

Lives are being lost everyday due to the cost of fires with old fire alarms. According to the National Fire Protection Association, almost two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA 's) fire department survey, showed that in 2009-2013 fires in homes with no smoke alarms caused an average of 940 deaths per year (38% of home fire deaths). An additional 510 people per year were fatally…

The prevention of fire hazards in the workplace requires the use of two approaches i.e. fire risk assessment and implementation of best practices towards promoting fire safety in the working environment. The use of these approaches should be accompanied with compliance with legal requirements regarding occupational health and safety. The organization should examine state and federal laws regarding occupational health and safety, particularly fire safety and develop and implement policies and…

Free use of fire Arms in America Do you know that every 12 hours a person is assaulted in U.S? The FBI shows us that more than 1.2 million people had any kind of gun event in 2013. Also it is known that in 2012 there were more than 14.000 murders by fire arms (1). Even though it is true that there have been several incidents caused by the use of fire arms, the facts mentioned earlier show us that the American people are looking for free gun ownership mostly due to self-protecting reasons,…

On October 1 2015, seventeen students at Umpqua Community College in Oregon became victims in a heart wrenching and growing epidemic: gun violence in America (OR Live). In the three years since the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, 972 mass shootings have taken place and more than 82,000 Americans lost their lives at the hands of gun violence but little to no action has been taken to curtail the rise of gun violence in the United States (Lopez 2015). While the problem of gun…

Furthermore, strangely, some manufacturers are even producing guns for children today, and Boy Scouts have fire training programs. In such a society, it seems that the best way is to slow down children’s experience gun and transitions of awareness in the federal government, the firearms, and parents. However, despite the prior solution is the key; it will take…

which limits action of local and state officials, therefore; protecting the rights of the government trying to infringe upon the Second Amendment. “Individuals were therefore granted a constitutional right to keep firearms in their homes for self-protection, a right that was deemed greater than a state’s power to restrict it” (About.com). Those in favor of owning firearms were overwhelmed with greatness taking the win on such a large case. It’s someone’s right as long as they are law-abiding…

between 1999 and 1993 (“Brady”). On the other side of this opposition is the National Rifle Association, also known as the NRA. A spokesperson for the NRA stated that more guns, not less were needed to avert shootings (“Gun Control Follow-Up”). Supporters argue that most gun owners are law-abiding citizens and have gone through the legal steps to purchase a gun. Most Americans purchase guns for sport or for their personal protection. By placing strict laws and regulations of gun ownership in the…

terrorism, the protection of civil liberties, and constitutional amendments, all of which are applicable to the removal of gun free school zones (“About the Committee”). Additionally, the committee’s hearings on legislation including the Patriot Act have fostered the committee’s pursuit of the appropriate balance between constitutional rights and national security which is very important in the case of possibly placing firearms in schools (“About the Committee”). The NRA, or the National Rifle…

Close to noon on November twenty-seventh after Thanksgiving, a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in a waiting area in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic as he chanted “kill the baby killers,” (Helling, 42). The fifty-seven-year-old Robert Lewis Dear murdered three people and left nine seriously wounded. Gun control rights are one of the most argumentative moral issues in today’s society. The argument over the right to bear arms according to the second amendment has been a…