Table 1.

Summary of literature review on fire risk in the apparel industry.

Author & Year	Applied Method	Study objective	Presented Risk Factors Ranking?	Proposed Stratified Mitigation Plan?
Asaduzzaman [46]	Descriptive statistics	Determining the relationship between fire safety management cost and profit increasing	No	No
Habib et al. [42]	Descriptive Statistics	Depicting the declining trend in the number of fire incidents after initiating fire safety inspection	No	No
Rathnayake et al. [45]	RII	Presenting a ranking of the fire risk factors and providing subjective suggestions for risk mitigation	Yes	No
Khan et al. [23]	CFD	Determining the effect of non-standard practices on evacuation during a fire incident	No	No
Nilufar and Choiti [29]	Computer Simulation	Determining the correlation between emergency escape routes and occupant movement behavior	No	No
Islam and Roman [5]	FRI	Determining weights of the fire risk parameters to evaluate the risk index of factories	Indirect	No
Barua et al. [41]	Descriptive Statistics	Depicting a comparison of the impact between standard and non-standard practices during an evacuation	No	No
Haque et al. [43]	Computer Simulation	Analyzing the fire and smoke propagation pattern and the evacuation scenario of the occupants	No	No
Haque and Chowdhury [40]	Empirical Probability	Establishing a probabilistic method to predict burn injury due to an electric fire	No	No
Hasan et al. [11]	Descriptive Statistics	Presenting historical data of deadly incidents statistically and forming a cause-effect relationship	No	No