- 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.
Refers to the severity of a fire where the progression is in the early stage and has not developed beyond that which can be extinguished using portable fire extinguishers or handlines flowing up to 473 L/min (125 gpm). A fire is considered to be beyond the incipient stage when the use of thermal protective clothing or self-contained breathing apparatus is required or an industrial fire brigade member is required to crawl on the ground or floor to stay below smoke and heat.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to the knowledge that rescue and fire-fighting personnel must maintain relative to locations, routes, and conditions that will enable them to respond quickly and efficiently to emergencies on the airport and those areas surrounding the airport.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to the knowledge of vital information that rescue and fire-fighting personnel should learn and retain with regard to the specific types of aircraft that normally use the airport and other aircraft that might use the airport due to weather conditions at scheduled destinations.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to the contiguous property that makes up a nuclear power plant facility. This would include areas both inside the protected area and the owner-controlled property.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to magazine walls or doors, constructed to resist penetration of a bullet of 150-grain M2 ball ammunition having a nominal muzzle velocity of 824 mps (2700 fps) when fired from a 0. 30-caliber rifle from a distance of 30. 5 m (100 ft) perpendicular to the wall or door.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to either pure metal or alloys having the generally recognized properties of magnesium marketed under different trade names and designations.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to an illumination source that is contained outside of the device or sign legend area that is to be illuminated.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to an illumination source that is contained inside the device or legend that is illuminated.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to an extinguishing agent that has the compatibility to perform fire suppression functions in support of a primary extinguishing agent and where extinguishment might not be achievable using only the primary agent.
Industry:Fire safety
Refers to an environment in which the load is predominantly supported by the rope rescue system.
Industry:Fire safety
