- 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.
The ground bus of the panelboard or isolated power system panel supplying the patient care area.
Industry:Fire safety
The group of individuals, with established communications and leadership, assigned to construct (if necessary), move, place, and manage panels (traditional sheeting panels) both inside and outside the space, trench, or excavation.
Industry:Fire safety
The group of control systems that regulates the boiler process, including the combustion control system but not the burner management system.
Industry:Fire safety
The ground area over which foam is distributed during the discharge of a foam-making device.
Industry:Fire safety
The floor area within the inside perimeter of the outside walls, or the outside walls and fire walls of the building under consideration with deductions for hallways, stairs, closets, thickness of interior walls, columns, or other features.
Industry:Fire safety
The greater of either (1) the special flood hazard area shown on the flood insurance rate map or (2) the area subject to flooding during the design flood and shown on a jurisdiction’s flood hazard map, or otherwise legally designated.
Industry:Fire safety
The greater of either (1) the base flood or (2) the flood so designated by the jurisdiction as its regulatory flood, with a 1 percent chance, or less, of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
Industry:Fire safety
The government authority having ultimate legal jurisdiction over a port or jurisdictional waterways.
Industry:Fire safety
The generic name for a family of powdered cementitious products consisting primarily of calcined gypsum with additives to modify physical characteristics, and having the ability, when mixed with water, to produce a plastic mortar or slurry that can be formed to the desired shape by various methods and subsequently sets to a hard, rigid mass.
Industry:Fire safety
The generic name for a family of sheet products consisting of a noncombustible core primarily of gypsum with paper surfacing.
Industry:Fire safety
