technical committee on flash fire protective garments

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON FLASH FIRE PROTECTIVE
GARMENTS
TO:
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON FLASH FIRE PROTECTIVE GARMENTS
FROM: Eric Nette, Staff Liaison
DATE: November 12, 2014
SUBJ:
NFPA 2112 FLG-AAA Minutes of November 4-6, 2014, First Draft Meeting (New Orleans, LA)
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I.
Attendance:
Members and Alternates:
Steven Corrado, Committee Chair, UL LLC
Terry Clark, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Doug Dale, University of Alberta (Phone)
Alec Feldman, JOIFF-International Organization for Industrial Hazard Management
Darren Hewston, Plains Exploration & Production Company
Pamela Kavalesky, Intertek Testing Services (Phone)
Stacy Klausing, Arcwear
Joshua Moody, Milliken & Company/Westex, Inc.
Roger Parry, The DuPont Company, Inc.
Mark Saner, Workrite Uniform Company, Inc.
Brian Shiels, PBI Performance Products, Inc.
Brian Spears, NFPA Industrial Fire Protection Section
Michael Stanhope, TenCate/Southern Mills, Inc.
Denise Statham, VF Imagewear/Bulwark Protective Apparel
David Wedge, Draper Knitting Company, Inc.
Tricia Hock, Safety Equipment Institute (Phone)
Amanda Newsom, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
Eric Nette, NFPA, Staff Liaison
Guests:
John Kohler, Springfield LLC
Chris Atkinson, Aitex
Craig Tutterow, Mount Vernon Mills
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James Cliver, Westex by Milliken
John Morton-Aslonis, North Carolina State University
Diane Hess, PBI Performance Products, Inc.
Shawn Deaton, NCSU
Roger Barker, NCSU
Quentin Bonner, Springfield, LLC
Vincent Diaz, Atlantic Thread
Alex Hummel, NCSU
Jeffrey Stull, International Personnel Protection, Inc.
Harry Winer, HIP Consulting LLC
Steve Paskluk, University of Alberta (Phone)
Alan Wallis, Drifire, LLC (Phone)
Rob Simmonds, Intertek Testing Services (Phone)
Bob Benedetti, NFPA
II.
Minutes of Meeting:
1. The Chair opened the meeting at 8:00 a.m., Tuesday November 4, 2014.
2. Attendees introduced themselves and necessary corrections were made to the
Technical Committee roster.
3. The Staff Liaison reported on the current committee roster and member
status.
Distribution Classification
Manufacturers:
Applied Research/ Testing Laboratory:
Special Expert:
User:
Total Principle Members:
Alternate Members:
8, 33%
4, 17%
5, 21%
7, 29%
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4. Staff introduced and reviewed NFPA’s standards development process.
5. Previous Meeting Minutes were approved by the Committee.
6. The Committee discussed outstanding issues in regards to updating the
standard to accommodate the new edition of ASTM F 1930.
i. A Committee Input (CI-25) was issued as a placeholder for any
necessary Second Revisions pending results from a Task Group that
was formed during this meeting
ii. Task Group Membership consists of the following volunteers, subject to
change:
1. Denise Statham (Chair)
2. Brian Shiels
3. Roger Parry
4. Chris Atkinson
5. Josh Moody
6. Doug Dale
7. Michael Stanhope
8. Sean Deaton
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9. Harry Winer
10. Craig Tutterow
7. Vincent Diaz representing Atlantic Thread gave a presentation introducing his
Public Inputs and the reasoning behind them.
8. Jeffrey Stull representing International Personnel Protection, Inc. gave a
presentation introducing his Public Inputs and the reasoning behind them.
9. North Carolina State University made a presentation on their test method
titled “PyroHands” and “Pyrohead” for possible inclusion in the standard.
10. The Committee responded to 72 Public Inputs and created 72 First Revisions
to NFPA 2112. A single Committee Input was made by the committee as
noted in item 6.i above
11. The Committee formed a Task Group to evaluate the changes to NFPA 2112
with the addition of new clothing items (Hood/Balaclava/Shroud, Gloves and
Rainwear) to ensure the entire document was changed and addresses the
new topic sufficiently
i. Task Group Membership consists of the following volunteers, subject to
change
1. Michael Stanhope (Chair)
2. Jeffrey Stull
3. Tricia Hock
4. Stacey Klausing
5. Dave Wedge
6. Josh Moody
7. Amanda Newsom
12. Next Meeting. The Committee’s next meeting will be NFPA 2112 Second
Draft Meeting. The Committee proposed the next meeting to be around
November, 2015. The exact date will be determined later, but it will most
likely be in Portland, Oregon.
13. The Chair thanked everyone for their input. The Committee Meeting was
adjourned at 4:45 p.m., on Thursday November 6, 2014.
Respectfully submitted,
Eric Nette, NFPA, Staff Liaison

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