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National Fire Protection Association
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 incidental use area in other than a detention and correctional occupancy where occupants are restrained and such occupants are mostly incapable of self-preservation because of security measures not under the occupants’ control.
Industry:Fire safety
An incident requiring action from multiple agencies that each have jurisdiction to manage certain aspects of an incident or planned event.
Industry:Fire safety
An incident or circumstance that produces or threatens to produce undesirable consequences to persons, property, or the environment that might ultimately be measured in terms of economic or financial loss.
Industry:Fire safety
An immersion-type vaporizer wherein the electric element heats an interface solution in which the LP-Gas heat exchanger is immersed or heats an intermediate heat sink.
Industry:Fire safety
An illustration of a problem serving to show the application of a rule, principle, or method (e.g., past incidents, simulated incidents, parameters, pictures, and diagrams).
Industry:Fire safety
An immediately readable, not easily alterable, print, slash, or punch record of all occurrences of status change.
Industry:Fire safety
An illuminating indicator.
Industry:Fire safety
An illness or disease resulting from invasion of a host by disease-producing organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites.
Industry:Fire safety
An illness or disease contracted through or aggravated by the performance of the duties, responsibilities, and functions of a fire department member.
Industry:Fire safety
An igniter that is applied to ignite the fuel input through the burner under prescribed light-off conditions. It is also used to support ignition under low load or certain adverse operating conditions. The range of capacity of such igniters is generally 4 percent to 10 percent of full load burner fuel input.
Industry:Fire safety