- Industria: 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.
A system or portion thereof in which the initiation of a holdup signal does not depend solely on operation of manually operated hand or foot initiating devices installed within the working area.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion thereof in which the action to activate the duress signal is known only to the person activating the device.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion thereof in which the ability to activate a duress signal is available to any person at the protected premises.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion of a combination system that consists of components and circuits arranged to monitor or control activity at or access to a protected premises.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion of a combination system that consists of components and circuits arranged to monitor and annunciate the status of fire alarm or supervisory signal-initiating devices and to initiate the appropriate response to those signals. (SIG-FUN)
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion of a combination system that consists of a control unit, components, and circuits arranged to monitor and annunciate the status of carbon monoxide alarm initiating devices and to initiate the appropriate response to those signals.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or group of systems in which the operations of circuits and devices are transmitted automatically to, recorded in, maintained by, and supervised from a listed central station that has competent and experienced servers and operators who, upon receipt of a signal, take such action as required by this Code. Such service is to be controlled and operated by a person, firm, or corporation whose business is the furnishing, maintaining, or monitoring of supervised fire alarm systems.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or circuit conductor that is intentionally grounded.
Industry:Fire safety
A system onboard an aircraft to provide breathing oxygen to occupants of the aircraft.
Industry:Fire safety
