Totally restructured, the NFPA 30-2008: Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code facilitates consistency and correlation with major construction and fire codes!

Adopted by most states and enforceable under OSHA, NFPA 30: Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code presents the latest and most complete guidance on the safe storage, handling, and use of these volatile substances. It provides the criteria you need to design facilities for better protection, comply with sprinkler requirements, and use safe operating practices.

Rewritten and reorganized, the new Code provides more focused and easier access to essential requirements.

The 2008 Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code incorporates a new "HazMat" format that integrates with NFPA 5000: Building Construction and Safety Code, the International Building Code, NFPA 1: Uniform Fire Code, and the International Fire Code, presenting NFPA 30 rules in a format consistent with these codes. The format will standardize the structure of all NFPA hazardous materials documents. The result: greater consistency, less confusion, and better integration among pertinent codes that aids compliance.

Stay current on critical technical changes, including:

• Adoption of the NFPA 101 occupancy definitions.
• Introduction of the concepts of control area, maximum allowable quantities, and protection levels.
• Additional fire protection design criteria for warehouse storage of containers, intermediate bulk containers, and portable tanks.
• Expanded requirement for overfill prevention measures to comply with EPA SPCC (Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures) guidelines.

• Several new definitions have been added to Chapter 3 to assist the user in applying the requirements of the code. Some existing definitions in Chapter 3 have been changed to read the same as the preferred definitions in the NFPA Glossary of Terms. Where possible, secondary definitions have been moved to appropriate chapters.
• New corrosion protection requirements have been added for nonmetallic tanks (Section 21.4.5).
• The requirements for construction of vaults (Section 25.5) have been improved for clarity.
• Additional requirements for fire-resistant tanks have been added (Section 22.9).
• The maximum capacity for secondary containment-type tanks storing Class II and Class IIIA liquids has been increased from 12,000 gal to 20,000 gal (from 45,000 L to 76,000 L) (Section 22.11.4).
• New requirements for periodic testing, maintenance, inspection, and repair of aboveground storage tanks have been added (Sections 21.5, 21.8, and 22.17).
• Overfill prevention requirements have been revised so that they apply to all tanks larger than 1320 gal (5000 L) capacity (Section 21.7.1).
• Special requirements for marine piping systems have been added (Section 27.11).
• Chapter 6, Container and Portable Tank Storage, as written in the 2003 edition, has been completely replaced by Chapters 9 through 16 of this edition. These new chapters regulate storage of containers, portable tanks, and intermediate bulk containers in a manner that is consistent with model building codes, such as NFPA 5000, Building Construction and Safety Code, and model fire prevention codes, such as NFPA 1, Uniform Fire Code, and incorporate the concepts of maximum allowable quantities (MAQs), control areas, and protection levels.
• Fire protection design criteria for inside storage areas have been expanded to include requirements for small plastic containers of Class IB, IC, II and III liquids in corrugated cartons and for Class IIIB liquids in corrugated cardboard intermediate bulk containers with plastic inner liners (Chapter 16).