- 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.
Fueling and defueling of aircraft fuel tanks, not including aircraft fuel transfer operations and design of aircraft fuel systems during aircraft maintenance or manufacturing operations.
Industry:Fire safety
Fuel containing chemical energy, which has been formed from animal and plant matter over many years (i.e., oil, coal, and natural gas) that are used in a boiler to produce steam for the generation of electrical energy.
Industry:Fire safety
Frostbite is a localized condition that occurs when the layers of the skin and deeper tissue freeze.
Industry:Fire safety
Free from any electrical connection to a source of potential difference and from electrical charge; not having a potential different from that of the earth.
Industry:Fire safety
Formed sheet steel members that, when interlocked together, form the rolling steel door curtain.
Industry:Fire safety
Format utilized by divers, based upon various accepted studies, which calculates nitrogen levels and converts them to tabular data for determining a safe dive profile.
Industry:Fire safety
Forces or other actions that result from the weight of all building materials, occupants and their possessions, environmental effects, differential movement, and restrained dimensional changes. Permanent loads are those loads in which variations over time are rare or of small magnitude. All other loads are variable loads.
Industry:Fire safety
Forces and deformations produced in structural members by the applied loads.
Industry:Fire safety
Forces acting on the aerial device from personnel, portable equipment, water, and nozzle reaction.
Industry:Fire safety
