A Top Guide for Fire and Life Safety Directors

Essentially the book is written to improve competency of fire and life safety directors, to fully understand the fire alarm systems and to prepare employers and employees to function as a unit. In hopes of, reduce the consequences of fire and deaths from active shooter incidents in high rise buildings.

A guide that has three main objectives. One is to provide aspiring and active fire and life safety directors with the relevant knowledge and skills, is to easily identify risks at their work places, save lives and reduce the sad consequential loss of property from fire and none fire incidents and the medical emergencies in high rise buildings. The second objective is to understand the fire alarm system and function at a higher level of competency. And lastly, to unify the efforts of management and employees, to be prepared at all times, to defeat trouble and deranged individuals, who for some sadistic reason want to kill and put an end to innocent lives.

Guyanese by birth. A graduate of J.C. Chandisingh High School (1962) – Awards: Cambridge School Certificate (1961), General Certificate of Education, London (1962). A graduate of Cyril Potter College of Education (1966-68). Teacher 1962 – 1977. Principal 1977 -1997, Guyana. A graduate of John Jay College – Security Management (2005) and Certificate of Completion (FSD) –Z 50 (2010). Certificates issued by NYC Fire Department – F 58- FSD Office/HiRISE/Hotel/Motel (March 2011) and F 85- FSD W/Act. Shooter &Medical Emergency Preparedness (February, 2017). Other NYC Fire Department Certificates – S 95 Supervision of the Fire Alarm Systems (9/2012), F 01 City-wide Fire Guard for Impairment(01/2012) and W07 Fire and Emergency Drill conductor(5/2015), USA.