Mustafa Centre ordered to close first floor until Saturday

• Clivebenss

  8 Apr 10, 14:08

  Mustafa Centre ordered to close first floor until Saturday
  By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 08 April 2010 1334 hrs

  SINGAPORE: Mustafa Centre in Little India will have to stop business temporarily for 40 hours on its first floor following a court order on Thursday.
  
  The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) applied for the order as it was concerned about overcrowding in the 24-hour shopping centre.
  
  The first floor of the store will close from 4pm on Thursday and reopen on Saturday at 8am.
  
  Mustafa Centre had 45 safety violations in the past five years - the highest for any building in Singapore.
  
  It has also been hauled to court four times and fined S$43,000 for flouting fire safety regulations.
  
  The SCDF can halt operations in a building for up to 72 hours in cases of extreme fire safety breaches.
  
  Building managements can be fined up to S$10,000 for breaching fire safety regulations.
  
  If the violations are not dealt with, they can be fined an additional S$500 for each day.
  
  - CNA/yb

• sbst275

  8 Apr 10, 14:09

  wat the!

• FireIce

  8 Apr 10, 14:13

  their earnings all go to paying fines.

• Clivebenss

  8 Apr 10, 19:49

  Building managements can be fined up to S$10,000 for breaching fire safety regulations.
  
  If the violations are not dealt with, they can be fined an additional S$500 for each day.

  Too small a deterrant. Should go by by S$500 per sqm, then they will jump.

  

   

• sbst275

  8 Apr 10, 19:51

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  Building managements can be fined up to S$10,000 for breaching fire safety regulations.
  
  If the violations are not dealt with, they can be fined an additional S$500 for each day.

  Too small a deterrant. Should go by by S$500 per sqm, then they will jump.

  

   

  sure or not?

  you know some supermarket they love to stack and leave their goods at the rear one you know.

• Clivebenss

  8 Apr 10, 19:56

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  sure or not?

  you know some supermarket they love to stack and leave their goods at the rear one you know.

  safety first.

  

• multipleviews

  8 Apr 10, 20:01

  how can dey do this??? Mustafa is a favorite place for our foreign talent friends.... Close already where  can our FT frens go??? Go chinatown or wat ar??? 

• mancha

  8 Apr 10, 20:18

  Been to Mustaffa many times, still have difficulty finding the exit.

  In case there is a fire, and there is smoke, and electricity cut off,  a lot of people will not immediately know where the exit is. Smoke, darkness, panicking people plus the narrow passageway full of combustible goods will make swift evacuation difficult. Maybe the staff would also close the doors to prevent customers from leaving without paying first. 

  Its about time.

• Xcert

  9 Apr 10, 09:52

  I think its a good move by the courts...to do something unprecendented....

  not being done before doesnt mean it cannot be done.

   

  Mustafa also attitude one....cited for safety violations...fined and hauled up to court 4 times liao still dun want to change...somemore I saw on TV last night that one mustafa staff mentioned something about "no mercy"....4 times in court still want mercy...

   

  they think Little India is really india ar?.....

• fudgester

  9 Apr 10, 10:19

  I have absolutely no objection to this.

  Like it or not, Mustafa Center is one big hellhole. Extremely narrow aisles, shelves stacked high with combustible goods, poorly-demarcated exits, you name it. In fact, I think that the basement section with the huge stacks of clothes and fabrics is the worst of all.

  And they can't argue that they didn't see it coming, not with the numerous citations for safety violations that they received in the past. 

  I laughed my head off when I read an article in another website criticizing this action.... if anything, URA and SCDF should have taken punitive action a long, long, time ago....

• TTFU

  9 Apr 10, 10:20

  Really that bad ar ? i tot mostly indian and malay visit mustafa...

• av98m

  9 Apr 10, 10:32

  I wonder why they do not fine NTUC fairprice. Their outlets are pretty fucked up with stuff strewn about haphazardly blocking exits and pathways, narrow aisles etc.

• the Bear

  9 Apr 10, 10:32

  Originally posted by TTFU:

  Really that bad ar ? i tot mostly indian and malay visit mustafa...

  what has that got to do with anything?

  fire hazard = fire hazard... 

• the Bear

  9 Apr 10, 10:33

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I wonder why they do not fine NTUC fairprice. Their outlets are pretty fucked up with stuff strewn about haphazardly blocking exits and pathways, narrow aisles etc.

  i should go "STOMP!" the bloody NTUC at Clementi... i think they locked the fire exits  

• TTFU

  9 Apr 10, 10:34

  Think a lot of people complain loh, then police come and close down the whole thing....

• av98m

  9 Apr 10, 10:35

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i should go "STOMP!" the bloody NTUC at Clementi... i think they locked the fire exits  

  maybe NTUC is exempt from fire safety standards because its NTUC. 

• the Bear

  9 Apr 10, 10:40

  Originally posted by av98m:

  maybe NTUC is exempt from fire safety standards because its NTUC. 

  ahahahahaa

  but even if so, i think once in the public domain like STOMP, people will kpkb enough until the SCDF kena go tekan them

• skythewood

  9 Apr 10, 11:15

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i should go "STOMP!" the bloody NTUC at Clementi... i think they locked the fire exits  

  
  Think is not good enough. Must prove. All fire exits has a "break glass in case of emergency" button somewhere, so if you stomp them, make sure they don't have that thing, and that the fire exit is blocked.

• sbst275

  9 Apr 10, 16:25

  talking abt NTUC.

  I ever wrote to SCDF before over it's unloading of goods at the rear. Even till to this day, bo chap though some of the corridors are actually fire escape access.

• Clivebenss

  9 Apr 10, 16:28

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  talking abt NTUC.

  I ever wrote to SCDF before over it's unloading of goods at the rear. Even till to this day, bo chap though some of the corridors are actually fire escape access.

  then should stomp lor. See if they can continue to bo chap.

• Dondontan

  9 Apr 10, 16:32

  Close?    Going near that place want go mustafa leh. close, now cannot go

• Farid_

  9 Apr 10, 19:29

  only first floor close

  Originally posted by Dondontan:

  Close?    Going near that place want go mustafa leh. close, now cannot go

  
  
• skythewood

  9 Apr 10, 19:58

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  talking abt NTUC.

  I ever wrote to SCDF before over it's unloading of goods at the rear. Even till to this day, bo chap though some of the corridors are actually fire escape access.

  unloading nothing wrong what. you mean if got emergency they cannot move the things away ah? can explain to me why it is wrong?

• elindra

  9 Apr 10, 20:12

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i should go "STOMP!" the bloody NTUC at Clementi... i think they locked the fire exits  

  
  "Some animals are more equal than others"

• sbst275

  9 Apr 10, 20:14

  Originally posted by skythewood:

  unloading nothing wrong what. you mean if got emergency they cannot move the things away ah? can explain to me why it is wrong?

  
  if they unload and quickly settle nvm.

  but those barang barang and push carts can be there the whole day.