An amendment to Taiwan's fire safety laws mean factory managers must provide firefighters with site layouts, chemical information and disaster response details, with fines of up to US$300,000 for non-compliance.
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00:00Taiwan's fire safety law has been revised, aimed at giving more protection to firefighters.
00:05Factory managers must now provide firefighters with site layouts, information about chemicals
00:09stored on site, and disaster response details.
00:13Any who fail to do so could face fines of up to 300,000 U.S. dollars, and there are
00:17rewards for whistleblowers.
00:19Site managers will now face jail time if there's a fatal fire, and it's found that they broke
00:23safety rules.