When a person decides that he or she wants to go into business, it doesn't take long before a pile of technicalities builds up - a logistical mountain of practical, legal, and safety issues. And that's just in the beginning, before he or she can even open the doors. There's more and more to attend to once things get rolling. In the safety category, for certain, 'fire safety' will need to be attended to, and within that, the FDNY will require a flameproofing affidavit - proof that flammable decorative items have been treated with fire retardants. That may feel like just another bothersome item to check off the list, but today we want to encourage business owners and help them see that flameproofing really can be a lifesaving measure, in the event of a fire.

When you hear the term ‘flameproofing, I would guess you’re thinking of the mostly modern technique of spraying or coating objects with highly advanced fire retardant chemicals. And you wouldn’t be wrong. Most of us don’t really think of any kind of flameproofing taking place in time periods prior to modern history. However, as soon as humans had an awareness of the power of fire, along with it came attempts to protect themselves from it. Today, we will see how some of the first methods of flameproofing have progressed to what we know it as today.