{"id":71775,"date":"2026-02-25T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/?p=71775"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:19:43","slug":"hr-and-hs-departments-must-update-procedures-following-the-introduction-of-new-fire-class-l-for-lithium-ion-cells-and-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/hr-and-hs-departments-must-update-procedures-following-the-introduction-of-new-fire-class-l-for-lithium-ion-cells-and-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"HR and H&#038;S Departments Must Update Procedures Following the Introduction of New Fire Class \u201cL\u201d for Lithium-Ion Cells and Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 January 2026, the ISO 3941:2026 standard \u2013 Classification of Fires \u2013 was updated to introduce a new fire class, Class L, covering fires involving lithium-ion cells and batteries that do not contain metallic lithium.<\/p>\n<p>This change is fundamental. It recognises that lithium-ion battery fires require a different approach to extinguishing, isolation and preventive safeguards, as they are characterised by significantly higher energy density, leading to faster and more intense fire development.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, this means that occupational health and safety procedures and fire safety instructions must be reviewed and updated, including the introduction of more specialised portable firefighting equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Find more articles in <a href=\"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/pro-hr-february-2026-2\/\">PRO HR February 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 January 2026, the ISO 3941:2026 standard \u2013 Classification of Fires \u2013 was updated to introduce a new fire class, Class L, covering fires involving lithium-ion cells and batteries that do not contain metallic lithium. This change is fundamental. It recognises that lithium-ion battery fires require a different approach to extinguishing, isolation and preventive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-71775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bez-kategorii","tag-monika-czekanowicz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71776,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71775\/revisions\/71776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}