Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums

Museums were established in Malaysia more than a hundred years ago. Since the year 2005, Malaysian government has discouraged constructing new purposely built museums in favour of refurbishing historic and old buildings to function as adaptive reused museums. Commonly due to insufficient ventilation...

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Main Authors: Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam, Abdullah, Abd Halid, Lee, Yee Yong, Suhaimi Shamsuri, Mohd Mahathir, Daud, Zawawi
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UTHM 2018
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http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3780/1/AJ%202019%20%28183%29.pdf
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author Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam
Abdullah, Abd Halid
Lee, Yee Yong
Suhaimi Shamsuri, Mohd Mahathir
Daud, Zawawi
author_facet Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam
Abdullah, Abd Halid
Lee, Yee Yong
Suhaimi Shamsuri, Mohd Mahathir
Daud, Zawawi
author_sort Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam
building UTHM Institutional Repository
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description Museums were established in Malaysia more than a hundred years ago. Since the year 2005, Malaysian government has discouraged constructing new purposely built museums in favour of refurbishing historic and old buildings to function as adaptive reused museums. Commonly due to insufficient ventilation, fully mechanically ventilated museums can pose critical indoor environmental issues that may lead to health hazards and risks among employees and visitors. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the potential risk factors within the museums based on indoor environmental criteria. This potential risk factors are resulted from the ‘Potential Risk Categories’, which have been developed by adopting the established Hazard Identification, Risks Assessment and Risk Control (HIRARC) Method. Based on the assessment of four main indoor environmental criteria in the Potential Risk Categories, it was discovered that 8 out of 24 museums are in the range of medium potential risk, while the rest of them are in the range of low potential risk. The ‘Potential Risk Categories’ is important for assessing indoor environment at the museums whereby the most critical risk could be assessed, and then suggestion could be provided to minimize the potential risk within the spaces inside the museums.
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spelling uthm-37802021-11-22T03:03:45Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3780/ Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam Abdullah, Abd Halid Lee, Yee Yong Suhaimi Shamsuri, Mohd Mahathir Daud, Zawawi TH7005-7699 Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning Museums were established in Malaysia more than a hundred years ago. Since the year 2005, Malaysian government has discouraged constructing new purposely built museums in favour of refurbishing historic and old buildings to function as adaptive reused museums. Commonly due to insufficient ventilation, fully mechanically ventilated museums can pose critical indoor environmental issues that may lead to health hazards and risks among employees and visitors. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the potential risk factors within the museums based on indoor environmental criteria. This potential risk factors are resulted from the ‘Potential Risk Categories’, which have been developed by adopting the established Hazard Identification, Risks Assessment and Risk Control (HIRARC) Method. Based on the assessment of four main indoor environmental criteria in the Potential Risk Categories, it was discovered that 8 out of 24 museums are in the range of medium potential risk, while the rest of them are in the range of low potential risk. The ‘Potential Risk Categories’ is important for assessing indoor environment at the museums whereby the most critical risk could be assessed, and then suggestion could be provided to minimize the potential risk within the spaces inside the museums. Penerbit UTHM 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3780/1/AJ%202019%20%28183%29.pdf Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam and Abdullah, Abd Halid and Lee, Yee Yong and Suhaimi Shamsuri, Mohd Mahathir and Daud, Zawawi (2018) Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums. International Journal of Integrated Engineering, 10 (8). pp. 43-55. ISSN 2229-838X
spellingShingle TH7005-7699 Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning
Mohd Dzulkifli, Syahrun Neizam
Abdullah, Abd Halid
Lee, Yee Yong
Suhaimi Shamsuri, Mohd Mahathir
Daud, Zawawi
Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums
title Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums
title_full Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums
title_fullStr Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums
title_full_unstemmed Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums
title_short Classification of potential risk factors through HIRARC method in assessing indoor environment of museums
title_sort classification of potential risk factors through hirarc method in assessing indoor environment of museums
topic TH7005-7699 Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3780/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3780/1/AJ%202019%20%28183%29.pdf