- 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.
Indicates a ratio of air to fuel supplied to a furnace that provides less than the minimum excess air needed for optimum combustion of the fuel.
Industry:Fire safety
Includes pilots, flight engineers, and flight attendants who crew on aircraft movement.
Industry:Fire safety
Includes audible and visual equipment such as chimes, gongs, lights, and displays that convey information to the user.
Industry:Fire safety
Include the manufacture, storage, and transportation of goods and chemicals; the storage and dispensing of flammable and combustible liquids, solids, and gases; and the manufacture, use, storage, and transportation of explosives, spray painting, milling, and the like.
Industry:Fire safety
Include natural gas, manufactured gas, liquefied petroleum (LP) gas in the vapor phase only, liquefied petroleum gas-air mixtures, and mixtures of these gases, plus gas-air mixtures within the flammable range, with the fuel gas or the flammable component of a mixture being a commercially distributed product.
Industry:Fire safety
Incidents involving the release or potential release of hazardous chemicals into the environment that can cause loss of life, personnel injury, or damage to property and the environment.
Industry:Fire safety
Incident Command System title for individuals responsible for command of the functional sections: operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration.
Industry:Fire safety
Incident Command System title for individual responsible for supervision of a branch.
Industry:Fire safety
In woven fabrics that direction perpendicular to the warp direction.
Industry:Fire safety
In water-based fire protection systems, work performed to keep equipment operable or to make repairs.
Industry:Fire safety
