- 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.
An inert or a combustible gas that is continuously or intermittently added to a system to render the atmosphere nonignitible.
Industry:Fire safety
An industrial occupancy in which ordinary and low hazard industrial operations are conducted in buildings of conventional design suitable for various types of industrial processes.
Industry:Fire safety
An industrial occupancy in which industrial operations that include high hazard materials, processes, or contents are conducted.
Industry:Fire safety
An industrial fire brigade emergency response vehicle designed and intended primarily for fire suppression, rescue, or other specialized function that includes pumpers, foam apparatus, aerial ladders, rescue vehicles, and other such apparatus.
Industry:Fire safety
An industrial appliance that is larger than 100 ft3 (2. 8 m3) in size, excluding blower compartment, fan compartment, and burner equipment, such as a billet or bloom furnace, a blast furnace, a brass melter, a cupola, a glass furnace, an open-hearth furnace, a ceramic kiln, or a vitreous enameling oven for ferrous materials.
Industry:Fire safety
An industrial appliance such as a floor-mounted or suspended-type warm-air furnace that is larger than 100 ft3 (2. 8 m3) in size, excluding blower compartment, fan compartment, and burner equipment; a steam boiler that operates at pressures that do not exceed 50 psig (gauge pressure of 345 kPa) and is larger than 100 ft3 (2. 8 m3) in size, excluding burner equipment; a water boiler that operates at water temperatures of not more than the temperature of saturated steam at pressures that do not exceed 50 psig (gauge pressure of 345 kPa) and is larger than 100 ft3 (2. 8 m3), excluding burner equipment; a floor mounted or suspended type unit heater larger than 100 ft3 (2. 8 m3) in size, excluding blower compartment, fan compartment, and burner equipment; a commercial cooking range; a bake oven; a candy furnace; a stereotype furnace; a drying and curing appliance; or any other process appliance in which materials are heated or melted at temperatures (excluding flue gas temperature) that do not exceed 600°F (316°C).
Industry:Fire safety
An individual, a piece of equipment and its personnel, or a crew or team of individuals with an identified supervisor that can be used on an incident or planned event.
Industry:Fire safety
An individual, a firm, a copartnership, a corporation, a company, an association, or a joint-stock association, including any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof.
Industry:Fire safety
An individual, a distributor, or a seller who has been tested or otherwise examined by a recognized organization that is acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction and found to be qualified to purchase, possess, or use high power rocket motors.
Industry:Fire safety
