NFPA 45:

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE: FIRE PROTECTION for LABORATORIES USING CHEMICALS

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Last Updated: September 18, 2000

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  1. Notice of Future Meetings
  2. NFPA Forms - "pdf" format: 
  3. Form for Proposals - NFPA Technical Committee Document
  4. NFPA Application for Technical Committees
  5. NFPA Committee Member Update Form 
  6. NFPA Formal Interpretation Request Form 
    7.
  7. Committee Roster 
  8. Task Groups - Next Cycle NFPA 45 Standard
  9. Revision Process - Schedule

1. Notice of Future Meetings

NOTICE OF NEXT MEETING

Spring/Early Summer 2001- Location TBA

 

2. Forms - NFPA Technical Committee Documents

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i) Form for Proposals - NFPA Technical Committee Document: - Form for Proposals - NFPA

ii) NFPA Application for Technical Committees: - Application for Technical Committee

iii) NFPA Committee Member Update Form (Change of address, employer etc.): - Committee Member Update Form

iv) NFPA Formal Interpretation Request Form: - Formal Interpretation Form

3. Members

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4. Task Groups from New Orleans Meeting (Next Cycle)

Task Group 1: Flammable Solids, Oxidizers and Unstable Reactives

Task Group Members:

Brenda Bronson (Chair)

Andy Minister, Michael St. Clair, Murray Cappers

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

Committee Tasks: Develop new text and substantiation for incorporating flammable solids into the document scope, including validation of quantities. Develop protection strategies based upon NFPA 704 ratings.

 

Task Group 2: Chapter 6 Issues

Task Group Members:

John Dembishack (Co-Chair) Pat Weggel-Laane (Co-Chair)

Greg DeLuga, James Fraley, Kevin Gilkinson, Louis Hartman, JP McCabe, Rudy Poblete, James Riley, & Steve Szabo

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks:

Review the following issues: combustible ducts and NFPA 91; review chapter 6 including hoods, VAV; Section 6-3.4, positive pressure versus negative; Section 6-9.3, Committee Comment #3 &endash; clarify "much of their working day" in front of the hood. Review Paragraphs 6-4.1 and 6-4.2 for changes being made to ANSI/AIHA Z9.5. Issues that need to be addressed are testing and maintenance of systems to prevent recirculation.

 

Task Group 2A: Chapter 6 &endash; Editorial Consistency

Task Group Members:

Steve Szabo (Chair)

Pam Weiss Tatum

Chair Tasks: In coordination with the larger Task Group Chaired by John Dembishack and Pat Weggel-Laane, periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

Committee Tasks: In coordination with the other work being completed with Chapter 6, ensure consistency and flow throughout the chapter. Explore the benefits of providing the larger Task Group Chaired by Dembishack and Weggel-Laane a draft with the new suggested layout with which to begin work.

 

Task Group 3: Quantities of Flammable and Combustible Liquids

Task Group Members:

Norman Steere (Chair)

Richard Anderson,Bill Barlen, Brenda Bronson, John Dembishack, Elliot Greenberg, Stephen Leeds, Ray Richards,

Pam Weiss Tatum, Pat Weggel-Laane

 

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks: Reassess the total quantities of flammable and combustible quantities in labs.

 

Task Group 4: Instructional/Educational Labs

Task Group Members:

Hal Cohen (Chair), Don Kohn and Peter Puhlick

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks: Review Section 2-2.2 and Committee Comment #10 which includes the definition of "instructional lab" and review the concept of the "undergraduate research lab".

 

Task Group 5: Personnel Protection Issues

Task Group Members:

Steve Szabo(Chair), Hal Cohen, Lou Hartman, Jim Riley, Michael St. Clair, JP McCabe, John Dembishack

 

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks: Review personnel protection issues.

 

 

Task Group 6: Chapter 10 Standardized Signage

Task Group Members:

James Riley (Chair), Kevin Gilkinson, JP McCabe, Paul Richards, and Pam Weiss Tatum

 

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks: Review Chapter 10 and consider elaborating on the "standardized signage" concept.

 

Task Group 7: Pressurized Dispensing Containers

Task Group Members:

Bill Barlen (Chair), Richard Anderson, Murray Cappers, Norm Steere, recruit others in the business

 

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks: Review the size of containers allowed in lab, and what is allowed/prohibited with respect to pressurized dispensing containers.

 

 

Task Group 8: Collection of Lab Fire Information

Task Group Members:

Richard Anderson (Chair) and Ray Richards

 

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks:

Develop a method to informally track and collect laboratory fire information. This information will be used to examine where the standard may be lacking or need elaboration.

 

 

Task Group 9: International Activities

Task Group Members:

Charlie Phillips (Chair), Ray Arntson and Bob Myers

 

Chair Tasks: Review the Committee Tasks and provide an expanded or elaborated mission statement for your group, if necessary, and provide to Ray Richards and Amy Spencer by December 1, 1999. Contact EACH member of the Task Group for input, and include each member in every group meeting. Please note that other people may be added to the Task Group who are not on the Committee if their expertise is needed. Periodically ensure report is sent electronically to Ray Richards (cc'ing Amy Spencer) for posting on the web page. Final report due to Staff Liaison by June 15, 2000 for inclusion in the agenda packet for Summer meeting in Boston. Report should include proposed text and substantiation for each issue.

 

Committee Tasks: Track ISO activities related to NFPA 45.

 

 

5. Revision Process - Schedule

* Date and location will be determined at the prior meetings

Action Item

Date

Proposal Closing Date

January 8, 1999

FINAL Date for ROP Meeting*

April 2, 1999

ROP to Mailing House

August, 1999

Comment Closing Date

October 8, 1999

FINAL Date for ROC Meeting*

December 27, 1999

ROC to Mailing House

March 31, 2000

NFPA Annual (Spring) Meeting (Denver)

May 14 - 18, 2000

Issuance of NFPA 45 - 2000

July 20, 2000

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