新泽西州普林斯顿 -奇尔沃思技术, a DEKRA company, announced that its process safety services will help all process manufacturing companies affected by the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) 652: Standard on Fundamentals of Combustible Dusts, which is scheduled for release in 2015. The new standard addresses the fundamentals of recognizing and managing combustible dust hazards and industry challenges in following the current industry or material-specific NFPA standards that are related to combustible dust.

“Many of our clients understandably want to get a jump start in learning the impending standard’s requirements for recognizing and managing combustible dust hazards and ensuring that they have made all necessary changes to their processes, training and equipment to be compliant,” said Dr. Vahid Ebadat, Chief Technical Officer of Chilworth. He added, “Users trying to follow current applicable NFPA standards to manage their facility’s combustible dust hazards sometimes find conflicting information, factual discrepancies and unclear or inadequate explanations. The upcoming NFPA 652 standard specifically addresses this and applies to all industries where combustible dust is handled and processed.”

NFPA 652将提供可燃尘埃管理的基本原理，包括对可燃灰尘和颗粒固体的火灾和爆炸危害的基本原理以及要求，以及要求，无论行业如何。

新标准的要求是，覆盖的站点完成了专门针对曝光灰尘问题的“灰尘危害评估（DHA）”。该标准允许为现有设施完成DHA的三年时间，并指定仅由具有DHA经验的合格人员进行或领导这些评估。Chilworth Technology已经执行了将近30年的DHA。

NFPA 652的其他部分追溯地适用于现有设施，包括变更，管家，培训，维护和文档要求。新标准将适用于生成，制造，处理，处理或重新包装可燃灰尘和颗粒固体的所有设施和操作，除零售设施，家庭和类似地点外。