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What changed in the rules, what it means for a warehouse, and what to do before the deadline rather than after the citation.
Between tightening lithium-ion battery rules under NFPA 855 and aggressive enforcement of high-pile storage flue spaces, fire marshals are walking warehouses with a sharper eye this fall. Here is what changed and what to inspect.
Two separate things get called "state warehouse regulation," and they work nothing alike. One covers every operator in the state. The other stops at 100 employees.
OSHA replaced its 2023 warehousing emphasis program on July 31, 2026 and reset the clock to 2031. Two things came out of it, and the trade coverage is getting both of them wrong.
The first-ever federal heat rule could drop any day. OSHA has already run 7,000+ inspections under its existing program. If you don't have a written heat plan, you're exposed.