- 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.
The rigid separation of the products in a container by dividers that form a stable unit under fire conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
The pneumatic terminus of a piped gas system for other than critical, continuous duty, nonflammable medical life support type gases such as oxygen, nitrous oxide, or medical air.
Industry:Fire safety
The professional practice of examination, documentation, treatment, and preventative care devoted to the preservation of cultural property.
Industry:Fire safety
The removal of soil from the complete aircraft exterior or from only localized areas where flammable or combustible solvents are used.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of estimating or forecasting the future behavior of a hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) container and/or its contents within the training and capabilities of the emergency responder.
Industry:Fire safety
The pressure in a blast wave above atmospheric pressure, or a pressure within a containment structure that exceeds the maximum allowable working pressure of the containment structure.
Industry:Fire safety
The product of the time to pump down to a given pressure and the displacement (for a service factor of 1) divided by the volume of the system (F= tD/V).
Industry:Fire safety
The portion of the fuel gas supply piping starting with and including the equipment isolation valve and extending to the point at which the fuel enters the prime mover.
Industry:Fire safety
The position from which direction and water speed of the vessel are controlled.
Industry:Fire safety
