- Industry: 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.
Controlthe growth of the fireand the movement of fireproductsby performing actions involving building construction features and built-in equipment without intentionally acting upon the inherent fireprocess.
Industry:Fire safety
Controlthe arrangement of the fuelwithin its environment.
Industry:Fire safety
Controlled exothermic chemical reactions that are timed to create the effects of heat, gas, sound, dispersion of aerosols, emission of visible electromagnetic radiation, or a combination of these effects to provide the maximum effect from the least volume.
Industry:Fire safety
Control the inherent or situational characteristics of the environment.
Industry:Fire safety
Control devices employing cableless (e.g., radio, infrared) techniques for transmitting commands and signals between a machine control system and operator control station(s).
Industry:Fire safety
Continuous, self-sustaining, smoldering combustion of upholstered furniture substrates after exposure to burning cigarettes.
Industry:Fire safety
Continuous tracks with captive trolleys or rollers at each vertical edge of the curtain used to guide and restrain the fire safety curtain.
Industry:Fire safety
Continuous flaming material leaving the site of material burning or material installation.
Industry:Fire safety
