- 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.
Condition in a compartment fire in which the entire volume is involved in fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Concrete reinforced with no less than the minimum amount required by ACI 318, prestressed or nonprestressed, and designed on the assumption that the two materials act together in resisting forces.
Industry:Fire safety
Compressed gas used as a prime mover to push water out of storage vessels, through pipe networks, or through distribution components.
Industry:Fire safety
Comprehensive term for all constructed or natural barriers and treated fire edges used to control a fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Comprehensive community fire and injury prevention programs designed to eliminate or mitigate situations that endanger lives, health, property, or the environment.
Industry:Fire safety
Components used to build rope rescue systems including life safety rope, life safety harnesses, and auxiliary equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
Component (nuclear safety related and non-safety related), equipment, instrument-sensing line, or cable, including associated circuits of concern, that is required to safely shut down a nuclear plant in the event of fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Complex machines (or machinery systems) constructed of heavy materials, not capable of simple disassembly, and presenting multiple concurrent hazards (e.g., control of energy sources, hazardous materials, change in elevation, multiple rescue disciplines, etc. ), complex victim entrapment, or partial or complete amputation, and requiring the direct technical assistance of special experts in the design, maintenance, or construction of the device or machine.
Industry:Fire safety
Commodities stowed and transported in an intermodal freight container.
Industry:Fire safety
