- Industry: Fire safety
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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 arc between the right and left tragion as measured over the top of the head in a plane perpendicular to the midsagittal plane.
Industry:Fire safety
The bandwidth of a filter that comprises a frequency range of a factor of 2. (That is, f2 =2f1 as defined in IEC 61260. For example, for an octave-band centered on 500 Hz, the lower frequency is 353 Hz, and the upper frequency is 707 Hz).
Industry:Fire safety
The area immediately surrounding the physical location of a fire having a boundary that extends far enough from the fire to protect industrial fire brigade members positioned outside the hot zone from being directly exposed to flames, dense smoke, or extreme temperatures.
Industry:Fire safety
The attempt by monitoring station personnel to establish that an emergency exists at the protected premises by listening to live audio feed from the protected premises.
Industry:Fire safety
The application of force to a material as a nondestructive test to verify the performance of that material.
Industry:Fire safety
The area or enclosed room of a telecommunications facility that contains power equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
The application of a mechanical means of removing combustion products to the outside atmosphere.
Industry:Fire safety
The amount of heat necessary to raise 1 gram of water 1°C at 15°C; a calorie is 4. 184 joules, and there are 252. 15 calories in a British thermal unit (Btu).
Industry:Fire safety
The aggregate amount of explosive materials, expressed in pounds, contained within buildings, magazines, structures or portions thereof, used to establish quantity-distance (Q-D) relationships.
Industry:Fire safety
The area, for foam discharge purposes, calculated as one-half the fuselage length multiplied by three times the fuselage width.
Industry:Fire safety
