- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
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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 system of devices that uses a fire alarm control unit to produce an alarm signal in the household for the purpose of notifying the occupants of the presence of a fire so that they will evacuate the premises.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of devices that uses a control unit to produce an alarm signal in the household for the purpose of notifying the occupants of the presence of concentrations of carbon monoxide that could pose a life safety risk.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of conductors that provides a low-impedance return path for leakage and fault currents.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of computer software, hardware, data, and personnel to describe information tied to a spatial location.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of components designed for and intended to process vapors, gases, and/or air as it is drawn through such devices by collecting the airborne grease particles and concentrating them for further action at some future time, leaving the exiting air with a lower amount of combustible matter.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of component parts, including, but not limited to, air compressor, motor, receiver, controls, filters, dryers, valves, and piping, that delivers compressed air <1100 kPa (<160 psi gauge) to power devices (hand pieces, syringe, cleaning devices, etc. ) as a power source.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of circuits and equipment intended to supply alternate power to a limited number of prescribed functions vital to the protection of life and safety.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of back-to-back metal (steel or wrought iron) bracket shelving stacked by being bolted together into multiple levels or tiers at approximately 7 ft (2. 1 m) intervals to form a book stack with walkways for each tier suspended from the posts or columns supporting the bracket shelving sections in each range.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of alarm-initiating devices, receiving equipment, and connecting circuits, other than a public telephone network, used to transmit alarms from street locations to the communications center.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of alarm-initiating devices, receiving equipment, and communication infrastructure (other than a public telephone network) used to transmit alarms to the public fire service communications center to provide any combination of manual or auxiliary fire alarm service.
Industry:Fire safety
