- Branche: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A specific system, device, or construction consisting of the materials that fill the openings around penetrating items such as cables, cable trays, conduit, ducts, pipes, and their means of support through wall or floor openings to prevent the spread of fire.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific separate element to generate heat that is applied to the pipeline or vessel externally or internally.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific room or building containing analyzers, one or more of which is piped to the process.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific pyrotechnic material in powder form composed of fuel(s) and oxidizer(s) that upon ignition produces a flash of light, sparkles, an audible report, or a combination of these effects.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific mixture of fuel and oxidant that yields the most rapid combustion at a specific measured quantity or that yields the lowest value of the minimum ignition energy or that produces the maximum deflagration pressure.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific listing process that applies only to two-wire devices, such as smoke detectors, that are designed to operate with certain control equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific level of prehospital medical care provided by trained responders, focused on rapidly evaluating a patient’s condition; maintaining a patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation; controlling external bleeding; preventing shock; and preventing further injury or disability by immobilizing potential spinal or other bone fractures.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific heating, or heating and ventilating, furnace incorporating an integral total enclosure and using only outdoor air for combustion.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non-intact skin, or parenteral contact with blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious material; inhalation of airborne pathogens; or ingestion of foodborne pathogens or toxins.
Industry:Fire safety
A specific area within a recreational vehicle park or campground that is set aside for use by a camping unit.
Industry:Fire safety
