- 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 procedure whereby ladders of different sizes are positioned partially within one another to reduce the amount of space required for their storage on the apparatus.
Industry:Fire safety
The movement area of an airport, adjacent terrain, and buildings or portions thereof, access to which is controlled.
Industry:Fire safety
The potential size or intensity of a fire over a period of time based on the available fuel and the fire’s configuration.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum voltage, measured in volts per meter of thickness, necessary to cause a spark through a solid material that is held between electrodes that produce a uniform electric field under specified test conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
The retail display and sale of merchandise to the public within a mercantile occupancy.
Industry:Fire safety
The ratio of vapor concentration inside the ensemble versus the vapor concentration outside the ensemble expressed as a percentage.
Industry:Fire safety
The person or persons within the fire department who are responsible for managing the department infection control program and for coordinating efforts surrounding the investigation of an exposure.
Industry:Fire safety
The probability that the system, structure, or component of interest will function without failure for a given interval of time or number of cycles. For standby systems, structures, or components, this includes the probability of success upon demand.
Industry:Fire safety
