NFPA Board of Directors announces three new appointments

January 22, 2025

The National Fire Protection Association® (NFPA®) Board of Directors has announced the appointment of three new members to the NFPA Standards Council: Guy Colonna, FSL Consulting LLC; Raymond Grill, Ray Grill, Consulting PLLC; and John LeBlanc, Factory Mutual. In addition, Randy Krause was reappointed to a second three-year term, Jeffrey Foisel’s appointment was extended for three years, and Rodger Reiswig’s appointment was extended for one year. All appointments and re-appointments began on January 1, 2025.

Guy Colonna joined NFPA as an engineer and staff liaison after serving in the US Coast Guard for 12 years with assignments afloat and ashore. During his 34-year tenure at NFPA, he staffed committee projects responsible for documents on maritime fire protection and industrial and chemical hazards. He also developed and instructed training programs for many of these topics and authored numerous technical papers and presentations. Colonna currently serves as a principal member of NFPA technical committees on hot work safe practices, confined space safe practices, and classification and properties of hazardous chemical data. He holds engineering degrees from the US Coast Guard Academy and Stanford University and is a registered professional engineer in chemical engineering in Massachusetts. He holds professional memberships with NFPA, AICHE, ACS, ASSP, and SFPE. Since retiring, Colonna has remained active as a consulting engineer with FSL Consulting LLC.

Ray Grill is principal of Ray Grill Consulting PLLC. He is licensed as a fire protection and mechanical engineer in several states with more than 40 years of experience in fire protection engineering. Grill is a fellow and past president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He is also a lifetime member of NFPA and has served as a trustee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation. Grill currently chairs the Installation Technical Committee of NFPA 13, the Building Services and Fire Protection Equipment Technical Committees of NFPA 101 and 5000, and serves on the Notification Appliance and Emergency Communications Technical Committees of NFPA 72. He is also an NFPA 72 instructor for NFPA.

John LeBlanc is a staff vice president and senior engineering technical specialist within the chief engineers group at Factory Mutual (FM), where he has worked for 40 years. LeBlanc is responsible for the development and updating of FM’s property loss prevention data sheets on ignitable liquid handling/storage, aerosol products, explosion protection systems, and provides support to all the special hazard subject matter experts who handle combustible dust standards, flammable gas standards, hazardous chemical standards, and special protection systems. He received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Science in fire protection engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves on 15 NFPA committees, is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.

The NFPA Standards Council, appointed by the NFPA Board of Directors, is comprised of 13 members. The responsibilities of the Council include overseeing NFPA standards development activities, ensuring compliance with the NFPA Regulations and Rules, and serving as the appeals body over matters related to standards development.

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