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National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Title

"Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Program"

Description

NFPA 1500 specifies the minimum requirements for an occupational safety and health program for fire departments or organizations that provide rescue, fire suppression, emergency medical services, hazardous materials mitigation, special operations, and other emergency services.

Standard Type(s)
Specification

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, system, or service: Examples of specifications include, but are not limited to, requirements for; physical, mechanical, or chemical properties, and safety, quality, or performance criteria. A specification identifies the test methods for determining whether each of the requirements is satisfied.

Standard

Document, established by consensus that provides rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results.

Personal Protective Equipment
Not Identified

  • General - applies to all PPE
Hazards
Not Identified
  • NONE
SOC Codes
33-0000 Protective Service Occupations
  • 33-2000 Fire Fighting and Prevention Workers
    • 33-2010 Firefighters
Standard References
Referenced Standard

ANSI/ISEA Z87.1-2020 - American National Standard for Occupational and Educational Personal Eye and Face Protection Devices

NFPA 1999 - 2018 edition - Standard on protective clothing for emergency medical operations

NFPA 1983 - 2017 edition - Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services

NFPA 1951 - 2020 edition - Standard on protective ensembles for technical rescue incidents

NFPA 1971 - 2018 edition - Standard on Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting

NFPA 1991 - 2016 edition - Standard on Vapor-Protective Ensembles for Hazardous Materials Emergencies and CBRN Terrorism Incidents

42 CFR 84.1 - Approval of Respiratory Protective Devices: Subpart A: General Information

NFPA 1984 - 2022 edition - Standard on Respirators for Wildland Fire-Fighting Operations and Wildland Urban Interface Operations

NFPA 1952 - 2021 edition - Standard on Surface Water Operations Protective Clothing and Equipment

NFPA 1852 - 2019 edition - Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)

NFPA 1981 - 2019 edition - Standard on Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) for Emergency Services

NFPA 1982 - 2018 edition - Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS)

NFPA 1994 - 2018 edition - Standard on Protective Ensembles for First Responders to Hazardous Materials Emergencies and CBRN Terrorism Incidents

NFPA 1851 - 2020 edition - Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting

NFPA 1975 - 2019 edition - Standard on Emergency Services Work Apparel

NFPA 1977 - 2022 edition - Standard on Protective Clothing and Equipment for Wildland Fire Fighting and Urban Interface Fire Fighting

NFPA 1992 - 2018 edition - Standard on Liquid Splash-Protective Ensembles and Clothing for Hazardous Materials Emergencies

29 CFR 1910.134 - Respiratory protection

Comments

References extensive NFPA codes and standards. Visit http://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/document-information-pages?mode=code&code=1500&tab=nextedition for more information.

Additional Non-NFPA References:

  • ANSI Z87.1
  • 29 CFR 1910.134
  • 42 CFR 84
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