- 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.
A space within a building enclosed by smoke barriers, including the top and bottom, that is part of a zoned smoke-control system.
Industry:Fire safety
A space within a building enclosed by smoke barriers on all sides, including the top and bottom.
Industry:Fire safety
A space that is large enough and so configured that a person can enter and perform assigned work, that has limited or restricted means for entry or exit (e.g., tanks, vessels, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults, and pits), and that is not designed for continuous human occupancy.
Industry:Fire safety
A space that contains mechanical equipment for handling, pumping, or transferring flammable or combustible liquids as a fuel.
Industry:Fire safety
A space or portable structure used for the display of products or services.
Industry:Fire safety
A space or compartment that has at least 15 in. 2 of net open area directly exposed to the atmosphere for each cubic foot of net compartment volume (0. 34 m2/m3).
Industry:Fire safety
A space inside or outside the hoistway, intended to be accessed with or without full bodily entry, that contains elevator or dumbwaiter mechanical equipment, and could also contain electrical equipment used directly in connection with the elevator or dumbwaiter. This space could also contain the electrical driving machine or the hydraulic machine.
Industry:Fire safety
A safety control that responds directly to flame properties, senses the presence or absence of flame, and, in the event of ignition failure or unintentional flame extinguishment, causes safety shutdown.
Industry:Fire safety
A space for the carriage or storage of items or products that are transported by the vessel.
Industry:Fire safety
