- 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.
The designation applied to a given system or set of nuclear safety-related components that enable the establishment and maintenance of physical, electrical, and functional independence from other redundant systems or sets of components.
Industry:Fire safety
The chemical decomposition of a compound into one or more other substances by heat alone; pyrolysis often precedes combustion.
Industry:Fire safety
The designated company representative with responsibility for coordinating effective, consistent, and quality training within the industrial fire brigade training and education program.
Industry:Fire safety
The designated area in which hazardous debris is intended to fall after a pyrotechnic device is fired.
Industry:Fire safety
The designated area of a motorsports venue in which vehicles compete, perform, train, demonstrate, or test at competitive speeds.
Industry:Fire safety
The design consideration in which failure of a component does not increase the hazard. In the failure mode, the system is rendered inoperative or nonhazardous.
Industry:Fire safety
The design and construction of a device such that, under the designed operating conditions, the device does not initiate ignition when surrounded by a flammable hydrocarbon mixture if an ignition source causes an internal explosion, the device is incapable of releasing sufficient electrical or thermal energy to ignite a hydrocarbon mixture, and the source of ignition is hermetically sealed.
Industry:Fire safety
The density of solid particulate in grams per cubic meter after discharge of the aerosol system at the design application density. This information is used to assess the degrees of visibility obscuration and the potential health effects of accidental exposure to the agent.
Industry:Fire safety
The degree to which a foam resists spontaneous collapse or degradation caused by external influences such as heat or chemical action.
Industry:Fire safety
