Regulation, fire issues federal

The individual U.S. states have always been entitled to issue their own regulation, as long as there is no contradiction with the federal legislation, which is normally nonexistent. Thus, California has long had regulation for the fire performance of upholstered furniture and mattresses, based on the requirements developed at the California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation (CBHF), and this has occasionally been emulated by some other states. 

In the list above, the committee developed what it judges to be among the more expected, or typical, hazards of a wind farm project life cycle. Many of these hazards— such as confined space entry, crane and lifting operations, electrical injury, working at heights, fire protection, human factors safety issues, and slips and trips—are common to land-based wind farms and are addressed by federal regulations and industry consensus standards, examples of which are included in Table 4-1. The... 

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