- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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An underfeed stoker using one retort only in the assembly of a complete stoker.
Industry:Fire safety
An underfeed stoker consisting of two or more retorts, parallel and adjacent to each other, but separated by a line of tuyeres, and arranged so that the refuse is discharged at the ends of the retorts.
Industry:Fire safety
An uncovered, below-grade highway or boat section where walls rise to the grade surface and where emergency response access is usually limited.
Industry:Fire safety
An uncompartmented space, generally two or more stories in height, within which smoke from a fire either in the space or in a communicating space can move and accumulate without restriction.
Industry:Fire safety
An SCBA in which the pressure inside the facepiece, in relation to the pressure surrounding the outside of the facepiece, is positive during both inhalation and exhalation when tested by NIOSH in accordance with 42 CFR 84, Subpart H.
Industry:Fire safety
An SCBA in which the pressure inside the facepiece, in relation to the pressure surrounding the outside of the facepiece, is negative during any part of the inhalation or exhalation cycle when tested by NIOSH in accordance with 42 CFR 84.
Industry:Fire safety
An SCBA in which exhalation is vented to the atmosphere and not rebreathed.
Industry:Fire safety
An SCBA cylinder filled to greater than 90 percent of the NIOSH rated service pressure.
Industry:Fire safety
An RIBC constructed entirely of solid plastic or solid plastic and foam composite that cannot be electrically grounded.
Industry:Fire safety
An oxidizer that does not moderately increase the burning rate of combustible materials with which it comes into contact.
Industry:Fire safety
