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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.
Devices designed to provide a specific water discharge pattern.
Industry:Fire safety
Devices attached to a fly section(s) to engage ladder rungs near the beams of the section below for the purpose of anchoring the fly section(s).
Industry:Fire safety
Device from which the extinguishing agent is discharged to provide for suppression of a fire in the designated hazard.
Industry:Fire safety
Determines the type of transformer and is defined as those larger than 500 kVA, while distribution transformers are those 500 kVA or smaller.
Industry:Fire safety
Determine a proper reaction given the communication of the existence of a fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Destruction of material by heat without self-sustained combustion.
Industry:Fire safety
As applied to switches, circuit breakers, switchboards, and distribution panelboards. Designed, constructed, and installed so that no current-carrying parts are normally exposed on the front.
Industry:Fire safety
Designated information that requires protection in the interest of national defense or foreign relations of the United States, that is, information classified in accordance with Executive Order 12356 and not falling within the definition of Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data.
Industry:Fire safety
Design original educational or informational resource materials.
Industry:Fire safety
Describes both full facepieces that cover the nose, mouth, and eyes and half facepieces that cover the nose and mouth.
Industry:Fire safety