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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 side of an opening from which traffic exits.
Industry:Fire safety
The operational procedures provided by the contractors to control the quality of the work and ensure compliance with the approved construction documents.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of developing the input data set for the assessment method of choice.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of evaluating the severity and consequences of an incident and communicating the results.
Industry:Fire safety
The room in the communications center where alarms are received and processed and communications with emergency response personnel are conducted.
Industry:Fire safety
The procedure used in shutting down or idling a special atmosphere to replace flammable atmosphere within the heating chamber(s) and vestibule(s) with nonflammable atmosphere.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of meeting with the juvenile firesetter and the family to determine the severity of the problem.
Industry:Fire safety
The ratio of the optical density of smoke and the mass loss of the test specimen, multiplied by the volume of the test chamber and divided by the length of the light path.
Industry:Fire safety
The principal artery of the system to which branches may be connected.
Industry:Fire safety
The rated-load current for a hermetic refrigerant motor-compressor is the current resulting when the motor-compressor is operated at the rated load, rated voltage, and rated frequency of the equipment it serves.
Industry:Fire safety