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National Fire Protection Association
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.
Heavy duty highway, off-road, construction, or mass transit vehicles constructed of materials presenting resistance to common extrication procedures, tactics, and resources and posing multiple concurrent hazards to rescuers from occupancy, cargo, size, construction, weight, or position.
Industry:Fire safety
High hazard contents include materials defined as hazardous materials in 3. 3. 161. 3, whether stored, used, or handled.
Industry:Fire safety
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems and their related components.
Industry:Fire safety
Heat, gases, solid particulates, and liquid aerosols produced by burning.
Industry:Fire safety
Heat transfer by way of electromagnetic energy.
Industry:Fire safety
Heat energy carried by electromagnetic waves that are longer than light waves and shorter than radio waves; radiant heat (electromagnetic radiation) increases the sensible temperature of any substance capable of absorbing the radiation, especially solid and opaque objects.
Industry:Fire safety
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, a U. S. Federal law that regulates all information pertinent to health matters.
Industry:Fire safety
Having the ability to store incident electromagnetic radiation typically from ambient light sources, and release it in the form of visible light.
Industry:Fire safety
Having satisfactorily completed the requirements of the objectives.
Industry:Fire safety
Having exterior enclosing walls that have less than 25 percent of the total wall area open to atmosphere at each level using at least two sides of the structure.
Industry:Fire safety