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National Fire Protection Association
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 physical means of entry of a hazardous material into the human body, including inhalation, absorption, injection, and ingestion.
Industry:Fire safety
The person who has fulfilled the entrance requirements of Chapter 1 of this document but who has not met the requirements of Public Safety Telecommunicator I.
Industry:Fire safety
The observation and evaluation of existing factors that are used to develop objectives, strategy, and tactics for fire suppression.
Industry:Fire safety
The movement of fire from one place to another.
Industry:Fire safety
The members of a shoring system that support the sides of an excavation and are in turn supported by other members of the shoring system.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum temperature at which a liquid emits vapor in sufficient concentration to form an ignitable mixture with air near the surface of the liquid, with the container as specified by appropriate test procedures and apparatus.
Industry:Fire safety
The modification of an aircraft, rebuilding of structural damage, correction of a system malfunction, or replacement of a major component or subassembly that requires an aircraft to be in out-of-flying status.
Industry:Fire safety
The point at which the power production and distribution network and the customer interface occurs in an interactive system. Typically, this is the load side of the power network meter.
Industry:Fire safety
The occurrence of a particular set of circumstances, whether certain or uncertain and whether singular or multiple.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum design quantity of agent that has been adjusted in consideration of design factors.
Industry:Fire safety