- 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.
Those areas at an incident scene that no person(s) are allowed to enter, regardless of what personal protective equipment (PPE) they are wearing due to dangerous conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
To give official authorization to or to approve a process or procedure to recognize as conforming to specific criteria, and to recognize an entity as maintaining standards appropriate to the provision of its services.
Industry:Fire safety
Usually found on the rail or deck of a vessel, fittings having jaws that serve as fair leads for anchor rode and other lines.
Industry:Fire safety
The technique of maintaining the concentration of an oxidant in a closed space below the concentration required for ignition to occur.
Industry:Fire safety
Upper torso garment measurement from center back at bottom of collar seam diagonally across back and down sleeve to bottom edge of cuff. In other specified instances, it is a measurement from center sleeve setting seam at shoulder to bottom edge of sleeve.
Industry:Fire safety
Tires stored where the sides of the tires overlap, creating a woven or laced appearance.
Industry:Fire safety
Where the stored energy system has the capability to start the prime mover without using energy from another source.
Industry:Fire safety
Those that are constructed in the ground or partially in the ground, and all others capable of holding water in a depth greater than 1. 0 m (42 in. ), and all pools installed inside of a building, regardless of water depth, whether or not served by electrical circuits of any nature.
Industry:Fire safety
Those arrays where collapse, spillage of content, or leaning of stacks across flue spaces is not likely to occur soon after initial fire development.
Industry:Fire safety
