- Industria: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 organization providing fire suppression, rescue, and related activities.
Industry:Fire safety
An organization providing rescue, fire suppression, and related activities as well as emergency medical services, hazardous material operations, or other activities that occur at a single facility or facilities under the same management.
Industry:Fire safety
An organization formed to represent the collective and individual rights and interests of the members of the fire department, such as a labor union or fire fighters’ association.
Industry:Fire safety
An organization established to oversee the management of multiple incidents that are each being handled by an incident command system (ICS) organization, or to oversee the management of large or multiple incidents to which several incident management teams have been assigned.
Industry:Fire safety
An operation performed to verify the gastight integrity of gas piping following its installation or modification.
Industry:Fire safety
An oral or written plan approved by the incident commander containing general objectives reflecting the overall strategy for managing an incident.
Industry:Fire safety
An operation performed on a gas piping system to verify that the system does not leak.
Industry:Fire safety
An operation involving the retrieval of the remains of a deceased victim, but in no case a living person.
Industry:Fire safety
An operation during which a battery receives electric energy that is converted to chemical energy from an external circuit. The quantity of electric energy then is known as the charge and is usually measured in ampere-hour.
Industry:Fire safety
