upload
National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
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.
Work or operations necessary or incidental to land clearing, grading, excavation, and filling; or erection, demolition, assembling, installing, or equipping of buildings or structures; or alterations incidental thereto, or to the finished product of construction operations.
Industry:Fire safety
Wastewater derived from areas consisting of single-and multiple-family residences.
Industry:Fire safety
The status of hose not readily available for use because it is not at the scene of an incident and not loaded on a vehicle that can transport it to the scene.
Industry:Fire safety
Those facilities where oxidizers are produced by chemical means or where oxidizers are pelletized, ground, dissolved, packaged, mixed, or blended.
Industry:Fire safety
Work with chemicals in which the containers used for reactions, transfers, and other handling of chemicals are designed to be easily and safely manipulated by one person.
Industry:Fire safety
Types of construction based on the combustibility and the fire resistance rating of a building’s structural elements.
Industry:Fire safety
These cables contain optical fibers and current-carrying electrical conductors.
Industry:Fire safety
Within the context of this document, a disaster is defined as any unusual occurrence or unforeseen situation that seriously overtaxes or threatens to seriously overtax the routine capabilities of a health care facility.
Industry:Fire safety
This system utilizes an orifice plate(s) through which passes a specific amount of foam concentrate at a specific pressure drop across the orifice plate(s).
Industry:Fire safety
To be fixed or set at a desired angle or inclination.
Industry:Fire safety