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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
Number of blossaries: 0
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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 appliance designed for heating nonpotable water stored at atmospheric pressure, such as water in swimming pools, therapeutic pools, and similar applications.
Industry:Fire safety
An apparatus designed to control and organize unused lengths of cable or cord at electrified truck parking spaces.
Industry:Fire safety
An angle of 120 degrees or less created between two rope rescue system components wide enough so as to create excessive force on the anchor points to which they are attached.
Industry:Fire safety
An anchor system configuration utilizing a single anchor point to provide the primary support for the rope rescue system.
Industry:Fire safety
An analysis to evaluate potential fire hazards and appropriate fire protection systems and features used to mitigate the effects of fire in any plant location.
Industry:Fire safety
An analysis to evaluate potential fire hazards and appropriate fire protection systems and features to mitigate the effects of fire in any plant location.
Industry:Fire safety
An analysis that evaluates all factors that affect the fire safety of a facility or a component of a facility.
Industry:Fire safety
A vaporizer in which heat furnished by steam, hot water, the ground, surrounding air, or other heating medium is applied to a vaporizing chamber or to tubing, pipe coils, or other heat exchange surface containing the liquid LP-Gas to be vaporized; the heating of the medium used is at a point remote from the vaporizer.
Industry:Fire safety
An analysis performed to determine the degree to which a predicted output will vary given a specified change in an input parameter, usually in relation to models.
Industry:Fire safety
An analog or digital signal containing instructions for how a public alerting system alerting appliance (PASAA) is to deliver and, if capable, to acknowledge a public alert.
Industry:Fire safety