- 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 physical location at which the coordination of information and resources to support incident management (on-scene operations) activities normally takes place.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum sound level at which the tone signal is audible in ambient noise.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum temperature at which the self-heating properties of a material lead to ignition.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum energy required from a capacitive spark discharge to ignite the most easily ignitible mixture of a gas or vapor.
Industry:Fire safety
The oxygen bomb calorimeter value for the heat of combustion, corrected for the gaseous state of product water.
Industry:Fire safety
The necessary equipment, usually consisting of a circuit breaker(s) or switch(es) and fuse(s), and their accessories, connected to the load end of service conductors to a building or other structure, or an otherwise designated area, and intended to constitute the main control and cutoff of the supply.
Industry:Fire safety
The one or more layers of textile material(s) used in the primary construction of protective garments.
Industry:Fire safety
The portion of a communications channel that connects not more than one protected premises to a primary or secondary trunk facility. The leg facility includes the portion of the signal transmission circuit from its point of connection with a trunk facility to the point where it is terminated within the protected premises at one or more transponders.
Industry:Fire safety
The membrane, which may also be the roof assembly, that resists fire and provides weather protection to the building against water infiltration, wind, and impact.
Industry:Fire safety
