NFPA Journal - March/April 2013 - (Page 69)

2013 NFPA Mobile App Preview the conference handouts, access session and speaker info, preview expo details, and organize your schedule. The 2013 NFPA Mobile App will be available in early May for your smart phone or tablet and updated with easy-to-use interactivity! 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Evaluation of Water Additives for Fire Control and Vapor Mitigation (M38) Research Flammability Characterization of Lithium Ion Batteries for Storage Protection (M39) Fire Suppression | Research Investigating Fires and Explosions: How Courts Are Utilizing NFPA 921 to Judge the Conduct of Investigators, Engineers, and Insurance Companies (M40) Codes & Standards | Fire & Emergency Services Process Safety and OSHA: Seven Keys to Surviving a Chem NEP Audit (M41) Loss Control/Prevention Community Risk Reduction – A Positive Experience in the U.S. (M42) Fire & Emergency Services | Public Education The Ripple Effects of the Adoption of the 2012 Life Safety Code® (M43) on the Health Care Industry Codes & Standards Buyer Beware: Counterfeit Electrical Products (M44) Electrical | Public Education High-Rise Evacuation for People with Special Needs (M45) Fire & Emergency Services NFPA 13 Sprinkler Omission Rules Explained (M46) Codes & Standards | Fire Suppression Fundamentals of PPE Design and Use for Arc Flash and Flash Fire Hazards per NFPA 70E and NFPA 2112 (M47) Codes & Standards | Electrical Overview and Update on NFPA 1730 — Fire Prevention Organization and Deployment (M48) Fire & Emergency Services | Public Education Overview of Fire Protection and Life Safety Construction Quality Control (M49) Building & Life Safety | Fire Protection Engineering Mass Notification System Maintenance — A College Perspective (M50) Detection & Notification | Emergency Preparedness/Business Continuity Industrial Firefighting Training — An Australian Perspective (M51) Loss Control/Prevention Moving Beyond RACE: The Next Step in Health Care Fire Safety (M52) Emergency Preparedness/Business Continuity 1:00 – 3:00 PM • General Session • Philip C. Stittleburg, James M. Shannon and Keynote Address by Doris Kearns Goodwin Tuesday, June 11 8:00 Am – 12:30 pm (except as noted) 8:00 – 9:00 AM • Featured Presentation • The Pentagon, Fire and Life Safety — Ten Years Later William J. Fries III and Ariam C. Kloehn of the U.S. Department of Defense 9:30 – 10:30 AM Emergency Responder Research to Practice (T02) Fire & Emergency Services | Research Cracking the Code: Code Basics for Non-Code People (T03) Codes & Standards | Public Education Identifying Hidden Hazards That Can Lead to Pressure Explosions (T04) Loss Control/Prevention Electrical Safety — A Shared Responsibility (T05) Electrical Residential Cooking Safety Report and Recommendations (T06) Fire & Emergency Services International Approaches to Performance-Based Design of the SFPE Case Study (T07) Building & Life Safety | Codes & Standards Accessibility and ADA: 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design (T08) Building & Life Safety | Codes & Standards The Risk of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Exposure, Colonization and Infection in EMS Personnel and the Patients They Treat (T09) Fire & Emergency Services | Research Testing and Reclassification of Aerosol Cooking Oil Sprays (T10) Fire Suppression | Loss Control/Prevention A Risk-Based Decision Support Tool to Assist Fire Departments in Managing Unwanted Alarms (T11) Fire & Emergency Services | Research Combustible Metal Fire and Explosion Case Studies (T12) Loss Control/Prevention | Research Sprinkler Technology — Storage (T13) Codes & Standards | Fire Protection Engineering Hospital High-Rise Fire and Incident Management Scenario (T14) Building & Life Safety | Fire & Emergency Services Using Live Side-by-Side Burns to Enhance Controlled Training Fires to Educate and Advocate for Greater Safety (T15) Fire Suppression | Public Education Electrical Transformer Fire Detection and Suppression (T16) Detection & Notification | Fire Suppression Responders/Workers at Risk during Disaster Recovery and Cleanup (T17) Emergency Preparedness/Business Continuity Loss Control/Prevention 2013 National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code — Changes (T18) Codes & Standards | Detection & Notification (Continued on next page) The NFPA Journal Latinoamericano® is sponsoring a hospitality suite where education sessions in Spanish will be offered. For more information please visit: www.congresonfpa.com. El NFPA Journal Latinoamericano® nuevamente patrocinará un salón de hospitalidad donde se llevarán a cabo sesiones en español. Para obtener mayor información visítenos en www.congresonfpa.com. FOR INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER VISIT nfpa.org/conference OR CALL 1-800-344-3555 http://www.nfpa.org/conference http://www.congresonfpa.com http://www.congresonfpa.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NFPA Journal - March/April 2013

NFPA Journal - March/April 2013
Contents
First Word
In a Flash
Perspectives
Firewatch
Research
Heads Up
Structural Ops
In Compliance
Buzzwords
Outreach
Electrical Safety
Wildfire Watch
Cover Story: Storage Occupancies
Fifty Years of Smoke Detection
Industrial Occupancies
Chicago 2013
Fire Analysis + Research
Section Spotlight
What’s Hot
Looking Back

NFPA Journal - March/April 2013