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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.
An area, accessible to personnel, in which radiation exists, originating in whole or in part within radioactive material, at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive a dose in excess of 5 millirems (5 × 10-5 sievert) during any single hour or a dose in excess of 100 millirems (100 × 10-5 sievert) during any five consecutive days.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatic shutoff valve installed in the gas supply piping and set to shut off when unsafe conditions occur. The device remains closed until manually reopened.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of interconnected intrinsically safe apparatus, associated apparatus, and interconnecting cables, in that those parts of the system that may be used in hazardous (classified) locations are intrinsically safe circuits.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of piping and fittings, used for station outlet purposes, that is connected to the permanent piping of an oxygen-fuel gas system by means of hose or other nonrigid conductors.
Industry:Fire safety
An assistant who loads or reloads aerial shells, comets, or mines into mortars.
Industry:Fire safety
An area that is either (1) a story in a building where the building is protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system and has not less than two accessible rooms or spaces separated from each other by smoke-resisting partitions; or (2) a space located in a path of travel leading to a public way that is protected from the effects of fire, either by means of separation from other spaces in the same building or by virtue of location, thereby permitting a delay in egress travel from any level.
Industry:Fire safety
An arrow used in a fire scene drawing to show the direction of heat, smoke, or flame flow.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of one or more enclosed sections having a common power bus and principally containing motor control units.
Industry:Fire safety
An area used for storage of Class I liquids where the aggregate quantity present is greater than 37. 8 L (10 gal).
Industry:Fire safety
An assembled unit consisting of a fire pump, driver, controller, and accessories.
Industry:Fire safety