- 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.
An instrument used to measure the level of heat flux energy incident on a surface.
Industry:Fire safety
An instrument that samples air and indicates whether there are combustible vapors present and may also indicate the percentage of the lower explosive limit of the air-gas mixture.
Industry:Fire safety
An instrument that monitors performance characteristics of an aircraft in flight. It is usually mounted in the tail area of an aircraft and is designed to withstand certain impact forces and a degree of fire. Its purpose is to provide investigators with flight performance data that might be relevant in determining the cause of an accident/incident.Commonly referred to as the 'black box', they are in actual fact painted with bright heat-resistant paint in order to be spotted easily after a crash.They were invented in 1953 by an Australian chemist Dave Warren, who was motivated by the loss of his father in 1934 in one of Australia's earliest air disasters, the loss of Miss Hobart in Bass Strait.
Industry:Fire safety
An instrument on an aerial device that shows the angle of elevation of the aerial ladder or boom.
Industry:Fire safety
An instrument installed to measure the volume of gas delivered through it.
Industry:Fire safety
An institution that acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits material evidence of people and their environment for purposes of study, education, and enjoyment.
Industry:Fire safety
An installation of flame effects for which the governing use permit has a duration longer than 180 days.
Industry:Fire safety
An installation of fire alarm systems that serves contiguous and noncontiguous properties, under one ownership, from a proprietary supervising station located at the protected premises, or at one of multiple non-contiguous protected premises, at which trained, competent personnel are in constant attendance. This includes the protected premises fire alarm system(s): proprietary supervising station; power supplies; signal-initiating devices; initiating device circuits; signal notification appliances; equipment for the automatic, permanent visual recording of signals; and equipment for initiating the operation of emergency building control services.
Industry:Fire safety
An inorganic compound, one of the oxides of nitrogen. It exists as a gas at atmospheric pressure and temperature, possesses a sweetish smell, and is used for inducing anesthesia when inhaled. The oxygen in the compound will be released under conditions of combustion, creating an oxygen-enriched atmosphere.
Industry:Fire safety
