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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
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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 change to a building or facility that affects or could affect the accessibility of the building or facility or part thereof.
Industry:Fire safety
A change or modification that results in a deviation from the original design specifications or criteria.
Industry:Fire safety
A change of use involving a change in the occupancy classification of a structure or portion of a structure.
Industry:Fire safety
A change in the purpose or level of activity within a structure that involves a change in application of the requirements of the Code.
Industry:Fire safety
A change in the normal, physical structure of a material that can affect its serviceability.
Industry:Fire safety
A change in service of the vessel from some other use to use as a marine fire-fighting vessel.
Industry:Fire safety
A chamber or enlargement of a sewer in which large suspended or floating solids or material is removed from raw wastewater by a screen.
Industry:Fire safety
A chamber in which heat resulting directly from the combustion of fuel, or heat from a medium such as air, water, or steam, is transferred through the walls of the chamber to air passing through the exchanger; or a chamber in which heat from electric resistors is transferred to the air.
Industry:Fire safety
A chamber holding powder coating material that is aerated from below to form an air-supported, expanded cloud of the powder. The powder is electrically charged with a charge opposite to that of the object or material being coated.
Industry:Fire safety
A chain-fused firework that propels a series of aerial shell, comet, or mine effects into the air from collectively attached tubes.
Industry:Fire safety