- 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 arrangement of incandescent lamps, electric-discharge lighting, or other electrically powered light sources to outline or call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window.
Industry:Fire safety
An atomizing burner in which oil under high pressure is forced through small orifices to emit liquid fuel in a finely divided state.
Industry:Fire safety
An arrangement of devices, applied with specific techniques, that collectively serve to isolate a victim of a trench or excavation emergency from the surrounding product (e.g., soil, gravel, or sand).
Industry:Fire safety
An area with specific, established fuel loads and fire hazard characteristics.
Industry:Fire safety
An assessment of the likelihood, vulnerability, and magnitude of incidents that could result from exposure to hazards.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of electrically interconnected electrolytic cells supplied by a source of direct-current power.
Industry:Fire safety
An area within a semiconductor fabrication facility and related research and development areas in which there are processes using hazardous production materials.
Industry:Fire safety
An atomizing burner in which oil is atomized by applied centrifugal force, such as by a whirling cone or plate.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of equipment and piping for the distribution of nonflammable medical gases such as oxygen, nitrous oxide, compressed air, carbon dioxide, and helium.
Industry:Fire safety
An area used for high power rocket activities that includes (1) a prepping area(s), (2) a launching area(s), (3) a recovery area(s), (4) a spectator area(s), and (5) a spectator parking area(s).
Industry:Fire safety
