NFPA Journal - July/August 2013 - (Page 10)
>>in a flash
Kristopher Overholt and Ofodike
(D.K.) Ezekoye received the 2013 Harry
C. Bigglestone Award for Excellence
in Communication of Fire Protection
Concepts for their paper, “Characterizing
Heat Release Rates Using an Inverse Fire
Modeling Technique,” published in NFPA’s
quarterly peer-reviewed journal Fire Technology. Overholt is a graduate student in civil
engineering at the University of Texas at
Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering,
where Ezekoye is a professor in the mechanical engineering department.
Dow Corning Company’s Songjiang
plant in Shanghai, China, was awarded
NFPA’s 2012 Industrial Fire Protection Section Fire Prevention Week Award. This award
recognizes businesses that promote fire and
related safety messages to its employees
and their communities during the 2012 Fire
Prevention Week. The award honors David
Hanson and his team for its “Have 2 Ways
Out” training initiative, which highlighted
training and drills via a website and brochure,
and posters and banners displaying fire prevention themes throughout the plant.
Tracy Koslowski, public education/information manager of the Drexel Heights Fire
District in Tucson, Arizona, was named
2013 Fire and Life Safety Educator of the
Year. Koslowski oversees her district’s public
education programs while performing fire
marshal duties. She has pioneered innovative
fire safety outreach programs to address allterrain vehicle crashes, preteen and teenage
fitness and fire preparedness, wheeled sports
safety, and child passenger safety.
The paper “Determination of Fire Hose
Friction Loss Characteristics” won the 2013
Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal,
which recognizes a Research Foundation
project that best exemplifies the Foundation’s
mission. Co-authored by Joseph L. Scheffey,
director of R&D at Hughes Associates, the
paper addresses the problem of calculating
friction loss in fire hoses.
Call for 2014 Education Presentations
Las Vegas hosts the next Conference &
Expo, June 9–12, 2014, at the Mandalay
Bay Convention Center. NFPA is seeking
proposals for education sessions at the conference. To submit proposals online by the
September 16 deadline, visit nfpa.org.
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Safety Gets Energized
New websites underscore electrical hot topics and promote
the upcoming edition of the National Electrical Code
Contractors, designers, engineers,
NFPA’S STANdArdS CoUNCiL is
and code enforcers can find timely
expected to issue the 2014 ediinformation tailored to their field on
tion of NFPA 70®, National Electrical
necconnect.org, an online commuCode® (NEC®), in August, which has
nity highlighting the new edition as
prompted safety experts to band
well as electrical news. Code experts,
together to push for increased comfor instance, discuss the NEC’s new
pliance and use of the code.
and existing provisions, renewable
NFPA and nine other organizations have formed the Electrical Code energy requirements in the code,
and information on grounding and
Coalition (ECC), which promotes the
adoption of the latest edition
of the NEC through a series
of tools available on its
necconnect.org offers
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contractors, designers, engineers,
electricalcodecoalition.org.
and code enforcers electrical
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information tailored to their field.
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An “adoption support kit”
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members join the “NEC community”
information for promulgating agenby submitting an email address,
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NFPA also provides free, read-only
content, including newsletters, webiversions of the NEC.
“Expanded use of the most current nars, and additional videos.
“The necconnect.org website is an
edition of the NEC is central to imimportant way for NFPA to engage
proving electrical safety,” says Brett
with its customers and to make sure
Brenner, president of the Electrical
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ECC member. “The new resources
division director of Marketing and
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Another new website helps underscore the 2014 NEC’s relevance.
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NFPA Journal - July/August 2013
Contents
First Word
In a Flash
Perspectives
Firewatch
Research
Heads Up
Structural Ops
In Compliance
Buzzwords
Outreach
Electrical Safety
Wildfire Watch
Loud + Clear
Allied in Safety
Front Burner
Firefighter Fatalities in the United States, 2012
Fire Analysis + Research
Section Spotlight
What’s Hot
Looking Back
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