- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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.
Functional unit within the service branch of the logistics section responsible for providing emergency medical treatment of emergency personnel.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional unit within the service branch of the logistics section is responsible for the incident communications plan, the installation and repair of communications equipment, and operation of the incident communications center; also, a vehicle (trailer or mobile van) used to provide the major part of an incident communications center.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional unit within the planning section responsible for ensuring orderly, safe, efficient demobilization of resources committed to the incident or planned event.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional unit within the planning section responsible for analysis of a situation as it progresses; reports to planning section chief.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional unit within the finance/administrative section responsible for financial concerns resulting from injuries or fatalities at incident.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional unit within the finance/administration section responsible for tracking costs, analyzing cost data, making cost estimates, and recommending cost-saving measures.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional provision of initial assessment (airway, breathing, and circulatory systems) and basic first aid intervention, including CPR and automatic external defibrillator (AED) capability.
Industry:Fire safety
Functional provision of advanced airway management including intubation, advanced cardiac monitoring, manual defibrillation, establishment and maintenance of intravenous access, and drug therapy.
Industry:Fire safety
Full personal protective clothing, plus a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and a personal alert safety system (PASS) device.
Industry:Fire safety
Fuel-burning appliances, not including high-pressure steam boilers, that are mainly used in residences but that might be used in other buildings, and that do not produce continuous flue gas temperatures exceeding 1000°F (538°C).
Industry:Fire safety
