Industry experts share insights on fire prevention, preparedness, and compliance across modern built environments.

Vikas Baliyan is a Health, Safety, Environment and Fire professional with more than 30 years of leadership, auditing and assurance experience across process manufacturing, refining, fertilizer, steel, power, automotive and manufacturing sectors. His expertise encompasses HSEF governance, process safety management, fire and life safety, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness, contractor safety and management-system assurance, with extensive experience in high-hazard operations and enterprise-wide HSE governance and continuous improvement.

Article Contributed by: Sateja Naik, Manager, Firetech Equipment & Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Maharashtra has written the world’s most practical fire-monitoring rule. The question now is whether building owners will read it properly.

Installing a fire system is easy. Keeping it alive is the real engineering. Because a fire never sends a warning — and when it comes, your system gets one chance to work. At Northern Star Engineering, that chance is now in your pocket.



Article by Daljit Singh, Fire and Safety Professional, Delhi Fire Service

Mr. Mukesh Bafna, Managing Director, Hi-Focus Electronic India Private Limited.



Harshvardhan Singh works as an Assistant Manager (Equipment Service) at a global mining utility vehicle manufacturer. He is positioned at Zawar Mines, Udaipur, India.

By Madan Bandodkar, Safety professional.