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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.
Those procedures taken to keep a material, once released, in a defined or local area.
Industry:Fire safety
Upper torso garment measurement from bottom collar seam to the bottom edge of the garment at front edge.
Industry:Fire safety
To sense and indicate a condition without initiating automatic corrective action.
Industry:Fire safety
The system of defining the predominant operating characteristic of an outdoor operation that is not enclosed in a building or shelter for purposes of applying relevant sections of this code.
Industry:Fire safety
The time the telephone begins to ring in the second public safety answering point (or the call screener). Many systems will not use secondary dispatch centers.
Industry:Fire safety
Upper torso garment measurement at center back from bottom of collar to bottom edge of garment.
Industry:Fire safety
To restrict the fire within determined boundaries established either prior to the fire or during the fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Tubing or pipe connecting the recreational vehicle to the propane supply source.
Industry:Fire safety
Unpackaged commodities carried in the holds or tanks of cargo vessels and tankers and generally transferred by such means as conveyors, clamshells, and pipeline.
Industry:Fire safety
The steady-state current taken from the line with the rotor locked and with rated voltage (and rated frequency in the case of alternating-current motors) applied to the motor.
Industry:Fire safety