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Help to ensure public and operator safety around outdoor professional fireworks displays with the 2022 edition of NFPA 1123, Code for Fireworks Display.

NFPA 1123, Code for Fireworks Display, provides information on how professional outdoor fireworks displays must be set up to help protect both the workers handling the fireworks and those attending the fireworks display. The 2022 edition clarifies existing requirements and includes new requirements based on industry changes.

NFPA 1123, Code for Fireworks Display, includes a number of comprehensive safety rules and requirements and can be used to achieve the following:

• Safely set up a professional fireworks display from the ground, elevated platforms, and floating vessels and platforms
• Determine how far away the audience should be from a fireworks display
• Satisfy regulations for state certification of display operators

Event and venue managers, insurance professionals, display operators, and state fire marshals, local authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs), and other enforcing officials should all consult the 2022 edition of the code.

Updates to the 2022 edition of NFPA 1123, Code for Fireworks Display, include the following:

• New information on multi-sized device spacing to address the separation distances required when such devices are used in one location
• Updated separation distance requirements

Help protect viewing audiences and operators and help prevent fires that could cause property damage with the newest edition of NFPA 1123.

If you’re responsible for safety around fireworks displays, order your copy of the 2022 edition of NFPA 1123, Code for Fireworks Display, today to help prevent a potential disaster. (Print, 52 pp., 2022)

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Published:

09/15/2021

ANSI:

ANSI Approved

Number of Pages:

46

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Provide public and operator safety around mortars, aerial shells, salutes, and other outdoor professional fireworks with the 2014 NFPA 1123.

NFPA 1123: Code for Fireworks Display provides information on how professional outdoor fireworks displays are to be set up in order to protect both the safety of the workers handling the fireworks and those attending the fireworks display.

Trust this important Code for comprehensive safety guidelines, such as how to:

• Safely set up/install a professional fireworks display form the ground, elevated platforms, and floating vessels and platforms
• Determine how far away the audience should be from the fireworks displaying
• Establish regulations for state certification of display operators
• Establish permits for fireworks displays

Keep celebrations safe. Make sure you’re up on important 2014 NFPA 1123 changes, including:

• New provisions for separation distances for marine preparation areas were added as there are many fireworks display barges being loaded near inhabited buildings and navigable waterways.
• Spectator distances from elevated display site were increased due to the increasing number of fireworks displays taking place from such sites. New annex material clarifies these requirements.

These changes make is easier for display operators to determine safety provisions for these types of displays and provide additional guidance for AHJs when issuing permits.

Prevent injuries to the viewing audience and fires that could cause property damage.

Everyone involved with such displays — event and venue managers; state fire marshals, local AHJs, and other enforcing officials; insurance professionals, and display operators — needs the 2014 NFPA 1123 to ensure compliance.

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Published:

07/26/2013

ISBN(s):

9781455907298

NFPA (Fire) 1123

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Provide public and operator safety around outdoor fireworks with the 2010 NFPA 1123.

Everyone involved with pyrotechnics for outdoor fireworks display — event and venue managers, enforcing officials, insurance professionals, and display operators — needs the latest safety requirements and recommendations in NFPA 1123: Code for Fireworks Display.

Don’t let celebrations turn into tragedies. NFPA 1123 presents the new rules based on recent fire and injury experience.

The 2010 edition provides comprehensive coverage of:

• Construction, handling, and use of fireworks and equipment intended for outdoor fireworks display, and the general conduct and operation of the display
• Recommended permit regulations
• Recommended regulations for state certification of display operators
• Revisions include updated definitions, clarified construction and location of ready boxes, revised rules applicable to the angling of mortars, and revised procedures for handling aerial shells or devices that do not fire during the display.

Make sure all the bases are covered.

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Published:

06/15/2009

Number of Pages:

42

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Provide public and operator safety around outdoor professional fireworks with the 2018 edition of NFPA 1123.

NFPA 1123: Code for Fireworks Display provides information on how professional outdoor fireworks displays are to be set up in order to protect both the safety of the workers handling the fireworks and those attending the fireworks display. This important 2018 edition not only clarifies existing requirements, it also adds new requirements based on industry changes.

Trust the Code for comprehensive safety rules, such as how to:

• Safely set up/install a professional fireworks display form the ground, elevated platforms, and floating vessels and platforms
• Determine how far away the audience should be from the fireworks displaying
• Establish regulations for state certification of display operators
• Establish permits for fireworks displays

Event and venue managers; state fire marshals, local AHJs, and other enforcing officials; insurance professionals, and display operators all need the 2018 edition with updates including:

• Changes addressing the stability of pyrotechnic devices and mortars, including prohibiting the use of plastic or zip ties to secure devices
• Added performance requirements covering rack construction and materials to help ensure that the entire system functions as designed and protects technicians and the public from injury should a catastrophic malfunction occur
• New subsection 4.7.1 addressing the use of trailers that are typically dense packed and are increasingly used for firing. This new subsection includes requirements on construction materials and the security and stabilization of racks on such trailers
• Requirements for additional information in the site plan for the use of elevated firing locations, to assist the AHJ in the evaluation and approval of spectator separation distances
• New annex material clarifying that the term fallout area does not include areas where cardboard and nonhazardous remnants of pyrotechnic devices might fall to the ground
• New annex material recommending the addition of eight hours of continuing education requirements for fireworks operator license renewal every four years

Prevent injuries to the viewing audience and fires that could cause property damage.

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Published:

08/21/2017

ISBN(s):

9781455917099

ANSI:

ANSI Approved

Number of Pages:

52