- 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.
Piped gases such as oxygen, nitrous oxide, helium, carbon dioxide, and medical air that are used in the application of human respiration and the calibration of medical devices used for human respiration.
Industry:Fire safety
Piped gases such as nitrogen and instrument air that are used to support medical procedures by operating medical-surgical tools, equipment booms, pendants, and similar medical support applications.
Industry:Fire safety
Pins that are used at either the swivel or point of articulation of an aerial device.
Industry:Fire safety
Pillows or similarly shaped units containing upholstery material covered by upholstery cover material, which might or might not be attached to the upholstered furniture item but are sold and delivered with it.
Industry:Fire safety
Piercing of the mucous membranes or the skin barrier due to such events as needle sticks, human bites, cuts, and abrasions.
Industry:Fire safety
Pier designed with inherent flotation capability that allows the structure to float on the water surface and rise and fall with water level changes.
Industry:Fire safety
Pier constructed on a permanent, fixed foundation, such as on piles, that permanently establishes the elevation of the structure deck with respect to land.
Industry:Fire safety
Pieces of hardware used to hold a sliding door to the wall, preventing lateral movement of the door from the wall.
Industry:Fire safety
Physically separated by a specified distance, construction, or appliance.
Industry:Fire safety
Physical impairment resulting from breathing oxygen-enriched gas mixtures at normal or elevated pressures for extended periods of time. The extent and nature of the toxicities are direct functions of oxygen partial pressure and duration of exposure.
Industry:Fire safety
