NFPA, FM, IBC/IFC, UL
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NFPA 704 and the New OSHA Hazardous Material Labeling
You might have noticed that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been making a shift in labeling requirements for chemicals. The new system is the United Nations Globally...
NFPA 25 - Highlights
Many jurisdictions have adopted NFPA 25, Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, to help ensure that sprinkler systems are properly inspected and maintained. Many...
Codes and Standards
What is a Standard? What is a Code? Why do they change so much? If they change, are we protected properly with the old standard we designed to? Codes Codes are consensus documents that are revised...
NFPA 3 Commissioning and Integrated Test of Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems
This is a new NFPA recommended practice, as opposed to standard. It outlines a systematic approach to provide documented confirmation that the fire protection and/or life-safety systems, as...
Changes to FM Global Data Sheet 8-9 - Storage of Class 1, 2, 3, 4 and Plastic Commodities (2011)
Between March 2010 and now, FM Global has made two revisions to this Data Sheet. In September 2010 the following revisions were made: The maximum linear and area spacing for K25.2EC (K360EC)...
International Building and Fire Code Adoption - By State
The table below has been published by the International Codes Council (www.iccsafe.org). It is up to date as of July 15, 2011. STATE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE...
Changes to the 2010 Edition of NFPA 20, Standard of the Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection
NFPA 20 is the most important standard for the design of fire pumps (off of a private supply) and booster pumps (off of a public supply - city water). Fire protection engineers use this detailed...
Changes to the 2010 edition of NFPA 13, Standard of the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
NFPA 13 is the most important standard for the design of automatic sprinkler systems. Fire protection engineers use this detailed standard to determine the design of an automatic sprinkler system....
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Fire Loss Statistics in the USA for 2008
515,000 structure fires, decrease of 2.9% from 2007 Of these structure fires, 403,000 or 78%, were residential fires A fire department responded to a fire somewhere in the U.S. every 22 sec. ...
Earthquake Bracing Requirements for FM Global Data Sheet 2-8
This Data Sheet provides a detailed description of the components necessary to guard against earthquakes for a water-based fire protection system. The fire protection system can include sprinkler...
FM Approvals RoofNav Tool
Choosing the correct roofing system for your facility may not be easy. There are many factors that should be taken into consideration based on the geographic location and other conditions of your...
Fire Protection System Inspection, Testing and Maintenance
The National Fire Codes (NFPA 25) and the GM Global (FM) Data Sheets (2-81) have both had substantial fire protection system updates in 2007. This would be an opportune time to see if your program...