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What does “acceptable fire risk” truly mean — and who decides it?

I am Pavlo Lapikov, a Fire Safety Engineer with over twenty years of experience across nuclear facilities, mines, hospitals, and high-rise buildings. Through these decades, I’ve faced the question that most people never dare to ask:

Who decides if your children, your parents, or your colleagues live or die in a fire?

Codes and standards claim to protect us, yet every line within them is a compromise — a social agreement about how much danger we are willing to tolerate. These are not only technical decisions but moral ones, shaped by economics, politics, and public indifference.

In this chapter, I explore the ethics behind fire safety, the hidden compromises within building codes, and the human cost of labeling something “safe enough.” Real stories and historical lessons reveal that ethics, education, and culture—not regulations alone—define the true difference between compliance and survival.

Key Reflections:
• What “acceptable fire risk” means in everyday life
• Why codes represent social compromises, not guarantees
• How tragedies like Grenfell reshaped the ethics of safety
• The moral responsibility to protect the vulnerable
• Why trust and culture matter more than documents or devices

Fire safety is not just engineering. It is philosophy — a reflection of how we value human life.

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Care about lives. Think beyond compliance.

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