New Research Foundation report analyzes the fire code gaps for hazardous waste treatment storage and disposal facilities

The Fire Protection Research Foundation has just published a new report, "Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility Fire Code Gap Analysis" authored by Elizabeth C. Buc, PhD, PE, CFI with the Fire and Materials Research Laboratory, LLC. Fires are adverse events with tangible costs for property and human life. Quantification of the immediate and direct costs of fire provide a metric for understanding the social and economic impact of fire and for assessing progress in fire prevention and protection. In addition to their most manifest physical costs, however, fires have a range of less immediate and obvious adverse consequences...