NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code (2024)

NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code, offers comprehensive requirements to help safeguard against fire and explosion hazards while storing, dispensing, handling, transferring, and using flammable and ignitible liquids.

This must-have code is for anyone responsible for flammable and combustible liquids compliance. It covers indoor and outdoor liquid storage containers and tanks, hazardous material storage lockers, tank vehicles, piping systems, electrical systems, storage areas, wharves, and processing facilities.

Major updates to the 2024 edition include:

• Changes to base requirements for drainage, containment, spill control, and explosion control.
• Revised static electricity requirements.
• A new section and an extensive annex on fire protection for processing facilities.
• New annexes on emergency control systems, evaluating tank spacing, and indicating alternative fire control measures.
• Added requirements on flammable liquid storage cabinet operation.
• Revised flame mitigation devices requirements to align with UL/ULC 30, Metallic and Nonmetallic Safety Cans for Flammable and Combustible Liquids.
• Revisions to metal container sizes and allowable quantities of consumer products at 50% alcohol.
• New requirements for storing distilled spirits in barrels.
• Added listing (or approval) requirements for overfill protection devices and pressure-vacuum vent devices.
• New chapter on petroleum production tanks.