What is NFPA 660?

In the past, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has issued several consensus standards governing the storage, handling, and generation of combustible particulates, along with many other Fire Safety documents. Recently the hard work of committees spanning the different combustible dust standards have fruited a new standard, NFPA 660 – Standard for Combustible Dusts and Particulate Solids. The effective date of the standard was December 6, 2024.

NFPA 660 was written to consolidate the requirements and guidance from the following standards: Continue reading “The New Combustible Dust Standard is Here – NFPA 660”

A major change is coming to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards regarding combustible dusts. Many of you have utilized the NFPA standards in the past. The combustible dust standards are in place to provide guidance on ways to identify materials that may pose fire and explosion hazards, determine where and when these hazards might occur, identify and review safeguards needed to prevent injury to personnel and damage to equipment and property, and to track the progress for improving these safeguards.

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