820: Standard for Fire Protection in Wastewater Treatment and Collection Facilities
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Keep Pace with Safety Innovations in Wastewater Treatment.
Fire and explosion hazards in wastewater treatment plants and related collection systems are a significant public safety concern. NFPA 820, Standard for Fire Protection in Wastewater Treatment and Collection Facilities, helps ensure treatment facilities, plants, sewers, and ancillary structures are safe and compliant.
The requirements offer hazard classification and general provisions for construction, ventilation, and electrical installation in wastewater treatment facilities.
Vital updates in the 2024 edition include:
- Revisions to address the accumulation of flammable gases and vapors
- Added reference materials for conducting a process hazard analysis
- Changes to definitions, including constantly attended locations to constantly monitored location and flammable and combustible liquids to ignitible (flammable and combustible) liquid to correspond with NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code
- New tables to better clarify the classified areas and ventilation requirements
- Changes to applying ventilation monitoring systems and quarterly testing requirements
- New requirement on low flame spread index material
- New requirements and materials for risk assessments, fire inspections, system testing, fire brigades, and personal protective equipment
- Changes to the term belowgrade (to belowgrade or partially belowgrade) to allow for the inclusion of partially belowgrade pits, wells, or similar structures
