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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.
A model whose outputs are probabilities or probability distributions.
Industry:Fire safety
A modification, replacement, or other physical change to an existing facility.
Industry:Fire safety
A moist layer of tissue that lines the mouth, eyes, nostrils, vagina, anus, or urethra.
Industry:Fire safety
A monitor that can be converted for use either in stationary mode on a fire apparatus or in portable mode on a separate ground base.
Industry:Fire safety
A monitor that is fed by a hose and that holds and directs a nozzle while attached to the rungs of a vehicle-mounted aerial ladder.
Industry:Fire safety
A monitoring device that samples a purified air stream for trace elements of carbon monoxide (CO).
Industry:Fire safety
A monitoring station having ownership that is not the same ownership as the properties being monitored.
Industry:Fire safety
A pressure pipe connecting the pump discharge of a wastewater pumping station under pressure to a point of discharge.
Industry:Fire safety
A receptacle is a contact device installed at the outlet for the connection of an attachment plug. A single receptacle is a single contact device with no other contact device on the same yoke. A multiple receptacle is two or more contact devices on the same yoke.
Industry:Fire safety
A reactive organic compound that consists of an active double oxygen group (-O-O-) combined with an organic radical. Organic peroxides are derived from hydrogen peroxide in which one or both hydrogen atoms are replaced by a hydrocarbon or heterocyclic or acid radical.
Industry:Fire safety