Safety management on fire emergency response by VESDA applications at semiconductor plants

To take an advantageous stance in the recent competition of semiconductor industries, companies have made efforts to invest terms of technological advancements. From 1993 to 2006, enormous fire accidents occurred in three national science parks in Taiwan. This research focused on whether the very early smoke detection apparatus (VESDA), could adequately assist the emergency response center (ERC) members to take actions when alarm occurs. Besides, the research also analyzed every VESDA alarm that happened from 2004 to 2006 for the purpose of increasing ERC personnel´s experience and coordinating ERC with departments of safety management, environmental protection, facility engineering, and equipment sections together to investigate better solutions to related problems.