Farid Wajdi Akashah is an Associate Professor at the Department of Building Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, and a Senior Consultant at UPUM Sdn Bhd, specializing in fire safety, and building condition evaluations. In 2024, he was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, Universidad de Navarra, Spain. He holds a Bachelor of Building Surveying from Universiti Malaya and a Ph.D. in Fire Safety Engineering from Ulster University. With over RM662,200 in research grants, his work has influenced fire safety policies, building codes, and risk mitigation strategies. He serves as one of Malaysia’s Representatives to ISO/TC 92/SC 4 Fire Safety Engineering and is a committee member for the National Standards Committee on Fire Safety and the Technical Committee on Passive Fire Safety Design under the Department of Standards Malaysia, contributing to both national and international fire safety standards. A lifetime member of IAFSS and MyRBS, he also serves on the UN-backed International Fire Safety Standards (IFSS) Coalition, supporting the Decade of Action for Fire Safety. A Registered Building Surveyor, MyCREST Qualified Professional, and certified Thermographer and NDT-UT Level I, he has led fire risk management, regulatory compliance audits, and building condition evaluations for projects exceeding RM6.88 million. Recognized with the Malaysian Young Building Surveyor Award (2016) and multiple Excellent Service Awards, he continues to advance fire safety, risk management, and regulatory improvements globally.

Dr. Zainal Abidin is a senior lecturer at Pusat Asasi Sains Universiti Malaya (PASUM). His researches focus on the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, with a particular emphasis on their antimicrobial, photocatalytic, photonics and morphological properties.

Mohd Awang Idris, is a lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology, Department Anthropology and Sociology, University of Malaya. He is Past President of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work (APAPFAW www.apapfaw.org). Currently he is Chair, Training and Development for APAPFAW. He also is Adjunct Professor at University of South Australia and Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University. His research interests mainly in occupational health psychology including psychosocial safety, employees' wellbeing and team performance. He publishes more than 50 publications (in books, chapters and journals), and also a reviewer for some well-known journals such as Safety Science, Work & Stress, Journal Occupational and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Stress Management, Cross-Cultural Management: An International Journal; and Journal Occupational Health Psychology. He won the Tony Winefield Thesis Prize award for the best PhD thesis in psychology for 2010-2011 from the University of South Australia, Adelaide. Google Scholar Link RG Link