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National Fire Protection Association
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 area usually located within the warm zone where decontamination is performed.
Industry:Fire safety
The action by which a person passes into a confined space. Entry includes ensuing work or rescue activities in that environment and is considered to have occurred as soon as any part of the entrant’s body breaks the plane of an opening into the space, trench, or excavation.
Industry:Fire safety
The average number of times an event is repeated in a given period.
Industry:Fire safety
The authorized person, formally and officially appointed or designated by the governing body or a responsible party, who is charged with the duties and responsibilities of providing and ensuring the overall management, operation, and maintenance for that facility or institution.
Industry:Fire safety
The area encompassed by the incident and the surrounding area needed by the emergency forces to stage apparatus and mitigate the incident.
Industry:Fire safety
The amplifier manufacturer’s stated or marked output power capability into its rated load.
Industry:Fire safety
The agency that has the sole responsibility and authority for negotiating, placing, and, where necessary, modifying each and every solicitation, purchase order, or other award issued by a governing body.
Industry:Fire safety
The authorized identification symbol or logo of the certification organization.
Industry:Fire safety
The actions taken by those responders first to arrive at an incident site.
Industry:Fire safety
The area where explosive material is handled during loading of the blasthole, including 15. 2 m (50 ft) in all directions from the perimeter formed by loaded holes.
Industry:Fire safety