- 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.
An arrangement that interconnects guard(s) or device(s) with the control system or all or part of the electrical energy distributed to the machine.
Industry:Fire safety
An area within a production facility set aside for the purpose of conducting in-process control tests that are related to the production process.
Industry:Fire safety
An arrangement of pipe permanently connected to a water source other than a piped, pressurized water supply system that provides a ready means of water supply for fire-fighting purposes and that utilizes the drafting (suction) capability of a fire department pump.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly consisting of the support structure, floor, railings, and operator’s secondary controls that is attached to the tip of a boom or an aerial ladder for carrying personnel and equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
An area used for parking of occupant vehicles that is not intended to serve as storage of vehicles.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of shelving sections mounted on carriages with the arrangement of carriages on tracks so as to provide one moving aisle serving multiple carriages between fixed end ranges.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatic device, actuated by temperature changes, designed to control the gas supply to the burner(s) in order to maintain temperatures between predetermined limits and in which the thermal actuating element is an integral part of the device: (1) graduating thermostat, a thermostat in which the motion of the valve is approximately in direct proportion to the effective motion of the thermal element induced by temperature change; (2) snap-acting thermostat, a thermostat in which the thermostatic valve travels instantly from the closed to the open position, and vice versa.
Industry:Fire safety
An assumed air temperature at the exposed face of the door in excess of ambient temperature.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of insulated conductors with fittings and conductor terminations in a completely enclosed, ventilated protective metal housing. Cablebus is ordinarily assembled at the point of installation from the components furnished or specified by the manufacturer in accordance with instructions for the specific job. This assembly is designed to carry fault current and to withstand the magnetic forces of such current.
Industry:Fire safety
