NFPA 70E, known as the “Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace,” plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of workers handling electrical systems. While still a voluntary standard issued by ...

Let's face it. The electric utility grid isn't 100% reliable. That's why the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and Code-enforcing authorities require alternate (emergency) sources of power ...

QUINCY, Mass., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrical apprentices across the U.S. will now have greater access to the latest fire, electrical, and life safety codes and standards through a new ...

The latest update to NFPA LiNK introduces AI-powered tools and workflow enhancements designed to help safety professionals apply codes and standards faster, more accurately, and with greater ...

Responding is Zarheer Jooma, P.E., and Gavin Watkins, electrical engineer, e-Hazard, Louisville, KY. First, it’s important to differentiate between the energy source (the equipment that’s ...

March 29, 2021 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has launched free NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting online training for firefighters to learn safer and more effective ways ...

QUINCY, Mass., Oct. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Fire Protection Association ® (NFPA®) and State Farm® are teaming up for the ninth year to promote Fire Prevention Week ™, October 5-11, 2025.

Ten months into the promulgation of the new NFPA 1970 standard (issued September 2024), some of the first products to be certified will be making their way into the market shortly — and protective ...

Buildings constructed today — including hospitals, high-rises offices or schools — are quite different than those erected 20, 10 or even five years ago. With the rapid advancement of technology, these ...

NFPA 1971 now specifies that the moisture barrier of a glove is to be resistant to liquid-borne or blood-borne pathogens and shall not allow passage of the Phi-X-174 bacteriophage 1 for at least one ...

“NFPA 1600, ‘Standard on Continuity, Emergency, and Crisis Management,’ 2019 edition, NFPA 1616, ‘Standard on Mass Evacuation, Sheltering, and Re-entry Programs,’ 2020 edition, and NFPA 1620, ...

The mission of the international nonprofit NFPA, established in 1896, is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and ...