Book Reviews

NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION— Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code. No. 30, National Fire Protection Association, 60 Batterymarch Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, 96 pp., 75 cents. Important major revisions growing out of a decade of study have been incorporated in the 1966 edition. A more realistic approach to the use of flammable liquids in the wide variety of occupancies using them has been written into this code to provide a reasonable degree of safety. For example, the standard now recognizes minimal handling of flammable liquids in such an occupancy as a neighborhood paint store, as contrasted with procedures in plants which utilize chemical reactions of flammable liquids in their manufacturing processes. The newly-revised code includes major revisions on the storage of flammable liquids in containers and incorporates new requirements for the storage, handling and use of flammable and combustible liquids in industrial and processing plants. Other major revisions include those in …