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Abstract

Fires in confined space, such as enclosure in buildings, ships or planes are called compartment and categorized as unwanted fire. Fire resulted in property loss, human injury and fatality as well as negative impacts towards environment. The numbers of fire cases keep increasingly from year to year and become human concerns regardless fire engineer, fire fighter, policy makers and academicians as well. Fire engineers had found one way to reduce the occurrence by determine whether such a potential exist by undertaking a fire risk assessment of the building or facility. The main goal of fire risk assessment is to identify and characterize the fire risks of concern and provide information for the appropriate fire risk management decision. The search of relevant publications was performed mainly through international bibliographic database and science search engine as well as by examining citations from other authors. The relevant features of currently available tools of risk assessment approach are described. As a conclusion, various tools for risk assessment in compartment has their own convergence and divergence, nonetheless the owners of building/design and fire engineer can choose based on their needs and capabilities as the focus not on hazards identification only but towards method to reduce or prevent the fire risk from occurs.