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A fire blanket cannot satisfy an OSHA extinguisher requirement - 29 CFR 1910.157 governs portable fire extinguishers and does not mention blankets at all, and a blanket carries no class or capacity rating. This guide covers the rating gap, the two jobs a blanket genuinely does better, and where it is the wrong tool entirely.

A charged fire extinguisher is a pressure vessel and does not belong in a bin. There is no single federal disposal rule - household waste is excluded from RCRA Subtitle C and handed to state and local authorities instead. This guide covers rechargeable vs disposable, safe depressurising, and the extra duty a workplace owes.

Fire extinguisher classes (A, B, C, D, and K) tell you which fires a unit can safely fight, and using the wrong class can spread a fire instead of stopping it. This guide decodes every class under NFPA 10, explains the numerical A and B ratings on the label, covers the PASS discharge method, and walks a worked example of equipping a workshop.

Most workplace fires start small enough to stop with a portable extinguisher, but only when you pick the right class and use it correctly. This guide explains the PASS method step by step, decodes fire classes A through K, walks through a real ABC unit, and covers the OSHA training rule and when to evacuate.