Recently I was working with one of my flammable liquid clients who recently hired some new engineers who needed some flammable liquids training. During my 1-day “Flammable Liquids 101” course we touch on those flammable liquids that are “non-conductive,” and as usual this caused quite a stir among the attendees. Most of the attendees, including the engineers, wanted to challenge the concept that with non-conductive flammable liquids the basic bonding and grounding practices will not be adequate to control static generation. The new engineering manager was pushing back against my NFPA/API content regarding non-conductive flammable liquids, and said he would need to see this material directly in an NFPA or API standard before he could become a “believer.” Luckily the site safety engineer was in attendance, and he and I have been working to get this facility (and those within the company that are interested) up to speed on their handling/processing techniques for their non-conductive flammable liquids. And before I could pull up NFPA 77, the site safety engineer had pulled up the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) on this material to support the training content. I was so happy to see an SDS written as a SAFETY DATA SHEET! Here is what the SDS stated regarding handling this non-conductive flammable liquid: