- 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.
An operation during which a battery delivers current to an external circuit by the conversion of chemical energy to electric energy.
Industry:Fire safety
An operation conducted outside of all structures, with the operations area devoid of all walls and roofs except for small, individual, weather canopies.
Industry:Fire safety
An operating device installed and serving as an integral component of a deep fat fryer that provides secondary limitation of the grease temperature by automatically disconnecting the thermal energy input when the temperature limit is exceeded.
Industry:Fire safety
An opening, construction method, or device that will automatically relieve excessive internal pressure due to an exposure fire.
Industry:Fire safety
An opening, construction method, or device that allows the relief of excessive internal pressure or vacuum during normal storage and operations.
Industry:Fire safety
An opening provided in the enclosure of a fluidized bed for the removal of spent bed material and any tramp material.
Industry:Fire safety
An opening or hole in a chimney, usually located near its base, designed to allow access to the flue for purposes of removing ash, creosote, soot, and other extraneous matter that becomes trapped.
Industry:Fire safety
An opening made in the wall, floor, or ceiling of a structure, based on construction type, that can be used for moving rescuers, equipment, or victims into or out of the structure.
Industry:Fire safety
An opening in the side of a vessel through which rain, sea, or fire-fighting water is discharged.
Industry:Fire safety
