- Industry: Fire safety
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The arrangement for containment of cargo including, where applicable, a primary and secondary barrier, associated insulation, and any intervening spaces and adjacent structures if necessary for the support of these elements.
Industry:Fire safety
The administrative medical direction that can be in the form of system design, protocols and procedures, training, and quality assessment.
Industry:Fire safety
The act of making a wildland fire scene safer after the fire has been controlled, such as extinguishing or removing burning material along or near the control line, felling snags, and trenching logs to prevent rolling. (Forstructurefires,see3. 3. 77,Overhaul. )
Industry:Fire safety
The action to be taken in response to a carbon monoxide alarm signal.
Industry:Fire safety
The air flow required to achieve nameplate full load. For the purposes of Chapter 6, Multiple Burner Boilers, it is the flow required to achieve nameplate full load based on the original design fuel as defined by the boiler equipment manufacturer.
Industry:Fire safety
The amount of foam solution in liters or gallons per minute expressed as a relationship with a unit of area, usually square meter or square foot.
Industry:Fire safety
The anatomical plane perpendicular to the basic plane and containing the midpoint of the line connecting the notches of the right and left inferior orbital ridges and the midpoint of the line connecting the superior rims of the right and left auditory meatus.
Industry:Fire safety
The act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods of its history, reconstruction of missing features, and repair of damaged or altered features from the restoration period.
Industry:Fire safety
The aspect of risk management that provides ways to pay for losses.
Industry:Fire safety
The application of more than one device or system, or part of a device or system, with the objective of ensuring that in the event of one failing to perform its function another is available to perform that function.
Industry:Fire safety
