Portable Fire Extinguishers
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Standing Agenda / Healthcare Facilities Monthly
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Energy Monitoring Equipment
Underwriters Laboratories / Northbrook, Illinois
The proposed first edition of Underwriters Laboratories Standard for Safety for Energy Monitoring Equipment, ANSI/CAN/UL 2808, covers submetering equipment and open and enclosed type current sensors intended for factory or field installation within distribution and control equipment such as panelboards, switchboards, industrial control equipment, and energy monitoring/management equipment.
Installation is in accordance with the National Electrical Code, ANSI/NFPA 70 and the Canadian Electrical Code (CE Code), CSA C22.1. These requirements also cover “Service Entrance” enclosed-type current sensors intended for indoor and outdoor use.
Click here to view these changes in full / ANSI Standards Action Page 74
Send comments (with optional copy to psa@ansi.org) to: Follow the instructions in the following website to enter comments into the CSDS Work Area:
UL’s Collaborative Standards Development System
IEC Academy
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Design and Maintenance of Roadway and Parking Facility Lighting
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Prevention of Slips, Trips and Falls
“Winterlandschaft” | Aert van der Neer (1655)
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.
Brigham Young University
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
LEARN MORE:
NFSI Board of Directors Terminates Relationship with ANSI, January 31, 2020
Heat Tracing Product Standard
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:
- National Electrical Code, ANSI/NFPA 70, Article 427
- IEEE Standard for the Testing, Design, Installation, and Maintenance of Electrical Resistance Trace Heating for Commercial Applications, IEEE 515.1.
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
Standing Agenda / Education Industry Trade Associations
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Distributed Ledger Technology Monthly
@DeviantArt
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.
Installing and Maintaining Motor Control Centers
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.
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