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NFPA 400 will help anyone responsible for the safe storage
of hazardous materials |
A new code being developed
by NFPA shall apply to the storage, use, and handling of
hazardous materials in all occupancies and facilities. A
five-year effort has resulted in the new NFPA 400,
Hazardous Materials Code, which promises help for anyone
responsible for the safe storage of
hazardous materials.
The new NFPA 400, Hazardous
Materials Code deals with the challenges posed by the
volume and variety of hazardous materials that have
become part of everyday commerce. Indeed, in the
trucking industry, the largest single section in the
Commercial Drivers License (CDL) handbook—the document
that is the basis for licensing truck drivers in the
U.S.—has to do with safely handling hazardous materials.
For building code enforcers, businesses, and others
responsible for safely storing the wide range of
increasingly common hazardous materials, the challenge
has been just as great. However, with no equivalent of
the CDL, guidance has been hard to get and, when
available, incomplete and confusing.
Now, after a five-year effort by the NFPA Committee on
Hazardous Chemicals, a solution is finally emerging.
According to Guy Colonna, NFPA division manager, the
Committee on Hazardous Chemicals is formally proposing
NFPA 400, which incorporates four preexisting documents:
NFPA 430, Code for the Storage of Liquid and Solid
Oxidizers; NFPA 432, Code For the Storage of Organic
Peroxide Formulations; NFPA 434, Code for the Storage of
Pesticides; and NFPA 490, Code for the Storage of
Ammonium Nitrate. The formal document should be out
later this year.
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