Plant-Wide NFPA 86 Combustion Reviews
Provide ongoing NFPA 86 Combustion Reviews for manufacturing company to streamline compliance.
Services
NFPA 86 Safety Surveys
Industry
Metals
Challenge
OSHA and insurance companies require equipment to maintain NFPA 86 compliance to ensure safe operation of industrial ovens, dryers and furnaces.
Solution
Our client utilizes our in-depth knowledge and experience in the industry to perform NFPA 86 combustion reviews for all furnace upgrades.
Details
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) establishes fire safety standards for safe operation of ovens, dryers, and furnaces. Many industrial manufacturing companies in the metals industry utilize high powered industrial furnaces. Therefore, they are required by OSHA and/or their insurance companies to maintain equipment compliance with NFPA 86. Additionally, the NFPA 86 standard is revised every four years.
One of our clients has a program requiring independent (third-party) reviews when significant upgrades are completed on furnaces or ovens. For the most part, this is to ensure they are maintaining compliance with the current edition of NFPA 86.
With our in-depth knowledge of the NFPA 86 standards, the client employs our team to review all furnace upgrades.
When the client needs to upgrade a furnace or oven, they submit the planned drawings and documentation to us. And we then perform a thorough analysis of the plans. Doing so, allows us to provide a detailed report of any discrepancies with NFPA 86. And as a result, these items are corrected in the design phase prior to installation. Once the upgrade is complete, we compile all as-built drawings and perform a final review of the documentation. In addition, we review the installation on-site. After all items have been addressed and the furnace meets NFPA 86 requirements, we sign their independent review documentation, giving them confidence that the work is compliant. In addition to a safer workplace and OSHA/insurance compliance, working with us throughout the upgrade, enables the client to avoid unnecessary and expensive rework and adders post upgrade.
Through our experience, we have the ability to design combustion or electrical upgrades to existing equipment, and you can be sure that NFPA 86 standards will be followed. If you would like to modernize your furnace or oven controls and/or combustion equipment, our team of engineers can provide the detailed design and engineering for your upgrade. Or, we can even provide a turnkey design and installation.