Editor: Jacqueline R. Wilmot
Reduce fire risks in commercial kitchens with insights and explanations only in the 2017 edition NFPA 96 Digital Handbook.
A rich resource featuring the full text of NFPA 96, expert commentary, and full-color visuals, the NFPA 96 Digital Handbook prepares you to recognize and address the special hazards present in today's public and private commercial kitchens. Commentary covers requirements throughout the 2017 edition of NFPA 96, Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations, including those addressing stove exhaust hoods, grease-removal devices, cooking exhaust systems, fans, fire-suppression systems, and clearance to combustibles.
The NFPA 96 Digital Handbook is essential for anyone who designs, installs, operates, inspects, or maintains cooking equipment.
Filled with insights, this illustrated PDF Handbook helps you understand and apply the 2017 edition of NFPA 96 in full, so you can reduce fire risks; avoid errors; and protect building occupants, equipment installers, hood cleaners, and inspectors.
Complete with a list of technical changes and new Annex B, the instantly searchable NFPA 96 Digital Handbook is the industry's only resource with:
- The full text of the 2017 edition of the NFPA 96 Standard plus commentary
- A list of technical changes -- including a new provision that a device installed in a duct, such as a pollution control device, now must be protected by its own fire extinguishing system
- New gray shading on paragraphs that indicates changes, plus "N" icons that flag new sections, tables, and figures; and bullets showing where paragraphs were deleted, just like in the Standard
- All new Annex B addressing mobile and temporary cooking operations, with expert commentary and a helpful food truck safety exhibit
- Operational Compliance Tips highlight requirements that should be observed throughout the life of a system -- not simply during system design and installation.
- More than 57 full-color photographs that facilitate installation and help you spot potential problems.
If you're responsible for safety in facilities that involve commercial cooking operations, be ready to work with the latest provisions in the Standard. Reduce hazards and save lives -- turn to the Digital Handbook for smooth compliance with the 2017 edition of NFPA 96. (Digital Handbook, 132 pp., 2017)