- 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.
Any construction material capable of direct and prolonged contact with floodwaters without sustaining any damage that requires more than cosmetic repairs.
Industry:Fire safety
Any conductor, optic fiber, radio carrier, or other means for transmitting fire alarm system information between two or more locations.
Industry:Fire safety
An ongoing process to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from an incident that threatens life, property, operations, or the environment.
Industry:Fire safety
Any condition that would pose an immediate or delayed threat to life, cause irreversible adverse health effects, or interfere with an individual’s ability to escape unaided from a hazardous environment.
Industry:Fire safety
Any condition occurring in a communications or transmission channel that interferes with the proper transmission or interpretation, or both, of status change signals at the supervising station.
Industry:Fire safety
Any composition or device for the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion, deflagration, or detonation, and that meets the definition of Consumer Fireworks, 1. 4G, or Display Fireworks, 1. 3G, as set forth in this Code.
Industry:Fire safety
Any compartment, space, or duct where the proximity of combustible materials, flammable liquids, and potential sources of ignition can promote a fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Any communication from the public or other agency that prompts action by a telecommunicator.
Industry:Fire safety
Any combination of automatic proportioning control devices, blowers, or compressors that supply mixtures of gas and air to multiple burner installations where control devices or other accessories are installed between the mixing device and burner.
Industry:Fire safety
Any combination of a fire door, a frame, hardware, and other accessories that together provide a specific degree of fire protection to the opening.
Industry:Fire safety
