- 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 enclosure designed to draw air inward by means of mechanical ventilation.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure designed for surface mounting that has swinging doors or covers secured directly to and telescoping with the walls of the box proper.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure containing batteries that is suitable for use in an area other than a battery room or an area restricted to authorized personnel.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure beside or above a series of hot cells for the purpose of servicing the hot cells.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed, partially enclosed, or unenclosed power-ventilated apparatus that is used to control the dusts and residues generated by surface preparation activities, such as sanding. A preparation workstation is not a limited finishing workstation, spray booth, or spray room, as herein defined.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed vestibule directly accessible from the main entrance of a theater, hotel, apartment house, or similar building with an occupant load of 10 or more.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed vertical passageway (riser) in a building, used for transferring trash or linen by gravity to a room at the bottom or to an interface to a compactor.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed structure or building at airports with elevated levels for support of equipment and occupied for observation, control, operation, and signaling of aircraft in flight and on the ground.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed storage and retrieval system that moves recorded media between storage and information technology equipment systems.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed space used for experiments or tests. A laboratory unit can include offices, lavatories, and other incidental contiguous rooms maintained for or used by laboratory personnel, and corridors within the unit. It can contain one or more separate laboratory work areas. It can be an entire building. A laboratory unit is classified as A, B, C, or D in accordance with Section 4. 2.
Industry:Fire safety
