- 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 safety device that is designed to provide an automatic means to prevent the filling of a container in excess of the maximum permitted filling limit.
Industry:Fire safety
A safety control that causes the flow of (liquid) fuel to be shut off when a rise in fuel level occurs or when excess fuel is received and that operates before the hazardous discharge of fuel can occur.
Industry:Fire safety
A safety control directly responsive to flame properties that senses the presence or absence of flame and de-energizes the fuel safety valve in the event of flame failure.
Industry:Fire safety
A rounded globule of re-solidified metal at the end of the remains of an electrical conductor that was caused by arcing and is characterized by a sharp line of demarcation between the melted and unmelted conductor surfaces.
Industry:Fire safety
A rope, chain, or strap of suitable length with a clasp at one end used for handling and leading animals by a halter, collar, or harness.
Industry:Fire safety
A rope system generally constructed from life safety rope, pulleys, and other rope rescue system components capable of lifting or moving a load across a given area.
Industry:Fire safety
A rope rescue system consisting of a nonmoving rope attached to an anchor system.
Industry:Fire safety
A rope rescue system component incorporating the reeving of rope through moving pulleys (or similar devices) to create mechanical advantage.
Industry:Fire safety
