- 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.
Areas within a facility or site designated as requiring critical operations power.
Industry:Fire safety
Areas where dust accumulations exceed 1⁄32 in. (0. 8 mm) or areas where dust clouds of a hazardous concentration exist.
Industry:Fire safety
Areas that have high hazard buildings, materials, processes, or contents.
Industry:Fire safety
Areas intended to provide a center of nursing activity for a group of nurses serving bed patients, where the patient calls are received, nurses are dispatched, nurses’ notes written, inpatient charts prepared, and medications prepared for distribution to patients. Where such activities are carried on in more than one location within a nursing unit, all such separate areas are considered a part of the nurses’ station.
Industry:Fire safety
Area or space within a building, located between the main entrance and the occupied areas of a building, or, when used in connection with a theater, the area between the lobby and the main floor.
Industry:Fire safety
Area of a building or structure, including interior and adjacent exterior spaces, where animals are fed, rested, worked, exercised, treated, exhibited, or used for production.
Industry:Fire safety
Arcing associated with a matrix of charred material (e.g., charred conductor insulation) that acts as a semiconductive medium.
Industry:Fire safety
Application or use of measures to prevent damage, change or alteration, or deterioration.
Industry:Fire safety
