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The mission of the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) is to aid in the prevention of slips, trips-and-falls through education, research, and standards development. NFSI provides a wide range of services including independent product testing and certification, educational training, and standards development. Its consensus product library is linked below:
We track several NFSI products for the education facility industry; one of which is linked below:
B101.6 STANDARD GUIDE FOR COMMERCIAL ENTRANCE MATTING IN REDUCING SLIPS, TRIPS AND FALLS.
At the moment the 2012 edition linked above appears to be the current version. User-interests in the education facility industry — custodial mangers and staff, for example –are encouraged to communicate directly with Russell Kendzior at NFSI, P.O. Box 92607, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 749-1700, russk@nfsi.org.
There are several accredited standards developers in this space and our algorithm tracks them all. We place this product suite on the standing agenda of our monthly Interior Fixture & Hygiene online meeting; open to everyone. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page to log in.
Issue: [18-193]
Category: Risk Management, Interior Fixtures & Hygiene, Facility Asset Management
Colleagues: John Lawter, Richard Robben
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NFSI Board of Directors Terminates Relationship with ANSI, January 31, 2020
Winter weather pipe-breaking and subsequent water flooding incidents on educational campuses around the world draw attention to Underwriters Laboratory product standard UL 515 Standard for Electrical Resistance Trace Heating for Commercial Applications which was last revised in July 2015. From the home page of UL 515: the scope is as follows:
(UL 515) requirements cover electrical resistance trace heating for commercial applications as applied to piping, vessels, traced tube bundles, and mechanical equipment. Trace heating includes heating panels and associated parts. This equipment is intended for installation in ordinary locations in accordance with the following installation guidelines:
Trace heating covered by this Standard is intended for applications where it is exposed to weather, unless specific markings and instructions limit the applications.
Trace heating may be installed on metal or rigid plastic pipes. Unless specific recommendations are made for the plastic pipe material to be heated, plastic pipes are considered to have a maximum long-term thermal exposure limit of 50°C (122°F).
UL 515 is on a 5-year revision cycle; though comments on its improvement may be directed at any time to Julio Morales Julio.Morales@ul.com. A review of the Standards Technical Panel suggests that User-Interest input — quite possibly product success and failure information — would be welcomed.
In future posts, we will sort through the interdependency of related NFPA and ASTM standards on this technology
Issue: [18-10]
Category: Architectural, Electrical, Structural, Facility Asset Managemet
Contact: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Richard Robben
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Today at 11 AM Eastern time we run a status check on consensus products evolving from distributed ledger technologies that contribute to the safety and sustainability agenda of the US education facility industry. Click in with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
A motor control center (MCC) is an assembly to control some or all electric motors in a central location. It consists of multiple enclosed sections having a common power bus and with each section containing a combination starter, which in turn consists of motor starter, fuses or circuit breaker, and power disconnect. A motor control center can also include push buttons, indicator lights, variable-frequency drives, programmable logic controllers, and metering equipment. It may be combined with the electrical service entrance for the building.
NECA 402 Standard for Installing and Maintaining Motor Control Centers describes the installation and maintenance for low-voltage motor control centers (MMC) rated 600 VAC or less with horizontal bus rating of 2,500 amperes or less.
Comments are due February 10th
Order from: Aga Golriz, (301) 215-4549, Aga.golriz@necanet.org
We usually refer this commenting opportunity to the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee with whom we collaborate closely 4 times per month. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.
The American Society of Safety Professionals is an ANSI-accredited standards developer for a suite of workplace safety standards that meet, and in many cases, exceed the minimum requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. We find them referenced in state adaptations of the OSHA legislation. The entry point to its standards development enterprise is linked below:
ASSP is updating one of its consensus products — ASSP A10.44 Control of Energy Sources (Lockout/Tagout) for Construction and Demolition Operations
This standard establishes the minimum requirements for the control of energy sources to prevent release of harmful energy that could cause death, injury or illness to personnel performing construction and demolition work. This standard does not cover the following: Installations under the exclusive control of electric utilities for the purpose of power generation, transmission and distribution, including related equipment for communication or metering; exposure to electrical hazards from work on, near or with conductors or equipment in electricutilization installations.
Comments are due February 10th.
Obtain an electronic copy from: Tim Fisher; TFisher@ASSP.Org, (847) 768-3411. Send comments (with optional copy to psa@ansi.org).
We encourage user-interests in the education facilities industry to participate directly in the ASSE consensus process. VOLUNTEER TODAY. We place all ASSP consensus products on the standing agenda of our Risk Management teleconferences. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.
Issue: [20-005]
Category: Risk Management, Public Safety
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben
* The American Society of Safety Engineers recently re-branded itself as the American Society of Safety Professionals.
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