- Industry: 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.
A notification appliance that alerts by the sense of hearing.
Industry:Fire safety
A normally noncurrent-carrying conductor used to connect metallic noncurrent-carrying parts of a direct current device to the engine negative terminal or its bus for the purpose of minimizing stray current corrosion.
Industry:Fire safety
A normally noncurrent-carrying conductor that is intended to carry leakage current from either the ac or the dc system. Bonding conductors connect underwater metallic objects as part of any cathodic protection system and, if sized in accordance with ABYC E-4, shall be permitted to serve as lightning grounding conductors. If used, they shall be colored green or green with yellow stripe, or shall be of bare copper.
Industry:Fire safety
A nonstructural interior wall that spans horizontally or vertically from support to support. The supports may be the basic building frame, subsidiary structural members, or other portions of the partition system.
Industry:Fire safety
A nonspecific overall outcome to be achieved that is measured on a qualitative basis.
Industry:Fire safety
A nonsheltered location exposed to the environment, either continuously or intermittently.
Industry:Fire safety
A non-self-supporting ground ladder, nonadjustable in length, consisting of only one section.
Industry:Fire safety
A non-self-supporting ground ladder that consists of two or more sections traveling in guides, brackets, or the equivalent arranged so as to allow length adjustment.
Industry:Fire safety
A nonrecirculating industrial air heater in which all the products of combustion generated by the appliance are released into the outdoor airstream being heated.
Industry:Fire safety
