I am going to bet that if you’re reading this article that your facility has a flammable gas that gets transferred from one container to another. And I will also bet that these transfers are done under the safety blanket of “bonding and grounding” as we do for our flammable liquids. But did you know, most flammable GAS transfers do not call for bonding and grounding – although I still recommend it. But why don’t flammable gas standards require bonding and grounding?
For example, the most widely used flammable gas standard is NFPA 58/1910.110, albeit it is specific to LPG/Propane. But since OSHA nor NFPA have an all-encompassing “flammable gas” standard we make do by applying NFPA 58 to our other flammable gases that do not have a specific standard. NFPA 58 specifically states: (emphasis by me)