- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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.
Liquids that flow by gravity away from an aircraft accident and might include aviation fuel (ignited or not), water from fire-fighting streams, liquid cargo, or a combination of these liquids.
Industry:Fire safety
Liquid, solid, gaseous, and vapor chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals used to inflict lethal or incapacitating casualties, generally on a civilian population as a result of a terrorist attack.
Industry:Fire safety
Liquid splash-protective ensemble and clothing materials limited to the garment material, hood material, visor material, glove material, and footwear material that provide protection from chemical and physical hazards. This includes, in addition to the above materials, the wearer’s respiratory protective equipment when designed to be worn outside the liquid splash-protective ensemble, the umbilical air hose, and all other exposed respiratory equipment materials designed to protect the wearer’s breathing air and air path. Primary materials can be either single layers or composites.
Industry:Fire safety
Liquid or semi-liquid blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials; contaminated items that would release blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials in a liquid or semi-liquid state if compressed; items that are caked with dried blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials and are capable of releasing these materials during handling; contaminated sharps; and pathological and microbiological wastes containing blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials.
Industry:Fire safety
Liquid or particulate agents that can consist of a biologically derived toxin or pathogen to inflict lethal or incapacitating casualties.
Industry:Fire safety
Limitthe characteristics and uses of heat-energy sources.
Industry:Fire safety
Influence the combustion process by pre-ignition control of the inherent or situational characteristics of the fuel.
Industry:Fire safety
