- 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.
Any federal, tribal, provincial, state, or local entity that has legal authority to organize and direct a fire-fighting service.
Industry:Fire safety
Any exposure to products of combustion, superheated atmospheres, toxic gases, vapors, or dust, or potentially explosive or oxygen-deficient atmospheres, or any condition that creates a hazard to the respiratory system.
Industry:Fire safety
Any explosive material that can be detonated by means of a No. 8 blasting cap or its equivalent.
Industry:Fire safety
Any equipment in which textiles are immersed or agitated in solvent or in which drycleaning solvent is extracted from textiles and/or dried.
Industry:Fire safety
Any equipment in which solvent-cleaned textiles are tumbled, agitated, and dried or deodorized while heated air circulates through the load to remove the solvent.
Industry:Fire safety
Any equipment in use without its own motive power train and normally moved by self-propelled equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
Any engine in which the working medium consists of the products of combustion of the air and fuel supplied. This combustion usually is effected within the working cylinder but can take place in an external chamber.
Industry:Fire safety
Any elevated bridge-like structure connecting two buildings and primarily designed for pedestrian use.
Industry:Fire safety
Any electronic digital or analog computer, along with all peripheral, support, memory, programming, or other directly associated equipment, records, storage, and activities.
Industry:Fire safety
