- 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 water flow rate for a system or hose stream that has been calculated using accepted engineering practices.
Industry:Fire safety
The temporary movement of people and their possessions from locations threatened by wildland fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Written procedures that outline and prioritize the actions to take following a disaster to minimize property damage and loss.
Industry:Fire safety
The spontaneous decay or disintegration of an unstable atomic nucleus accompanied by the emission of radiation.
Industry:Fire safety
Units of masonry projecting from or projecting upward and outward from the face of a wall or chimney in courses to form a support or ledge for a beam, rafter, or other member.
Industry:Fire safety
This level applies to individuals who identify hazards, use equipment, and apply advanced techniques specified in this standard to perform technical rescue operations.
Industry:Fire safety
To take suppression action that can reasonably be expected to check the fire spread under prevailing and predicted conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
This assembly consists of two internally loaded check valves, either spring-loaded or internally weighted, installed as a unit between two tightly closing resilient-seated shutoff valves as an assembly, and fittings with properly located resilient-seated test cocks.
Industry:Fire safety
Various systems used to mark hazards, victim location, and pertinent structural information.
Industry:Fire safety
Two or more unmixed, commercially manufactured prepackaged chemical ingredients (including oxidizers, flammable liquids or solids, or similar ingredients) that are not classified as explosives but that, where mixed or combined, form a blasting explosive.
Industry:Fire safety
