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Important updates in NFPA 40, Standard for the Storage and Handling of Cellulose Nitrate Film help you improve fire protection around still and motion picture film.
Due to its extreme flammability, cellulose nitrate motion picture film requires special fire safety and fire protection precautions. Research-based NFPA 40 is your one-stop source for provisions concerning every aspect of storage and handling of cellulose nitrate motion picture film in film cabinets and archival vaults, motion picture projection booths and theaters, laboratories, and film exchanges.
Minimize fire and related hazards with the latest edition of NFPA 40.
Updated with new definitions that reflect terminology used by modern archivists, the 2019 edition provides facility designers and engineers, code enforcers and inspectors, and film vault owners and operators current and comprehensive requirements for safe storage, handling, and fire protection for nitrate film, including:
- Construction requirements and arrangements of buildings
- Fire protection
- Storage of nitrate film
- Handling of nitrate film
- Motion picture projection and special processes
- Special occupancies
Technical changes in the 2019 edition of NFPA 40 include:
- A new requirement for inspection and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers to comply with NFPA 10
- Updates to the extended term storage vault requirements to give designers more flexible storage configurations
- Revised requirements for openings in, and exhaust capacities of, projection booths to reflect modern practices and equipment
- An added requirement for temperature and humidity control
Improve safety around flammable film by staying up-to-code with NFPA 40. (Softbound, 28 pp., 2019)
| ANSI : | ANSI Approved |
| Edition : | 3rd |
| Number of Pages : | 29 |
| Published : | 05/24/2018 |
