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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 enclosed assembly that may include receptacles, circuit breakers, fuseholders, fused switches, buses, and watt-hour meter mounting means; intended to supply and control power to mobile homes, recreational vehicles, park trailers, or boats or to serve as a means for distributing power required to operate mobile or temporarily installed equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed channel designed expressly for holding and protecting electrical conductors, cables, and busbars.
Industry:Fire safety
An employer, such as a welder, burner, grinder, painter, or other subcontractor, who performs work under contract to the host employer or to another employer under contract to the host employer at the host employer’s work site.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed assembly that can include receptacles, circuit breakers, fused switches, fuses and watt-hour meter, and monitoring means approved for marine use.
Industry:Fire safety
An employer who is in charge of coordinating work or who hires other employers to perform work at a multi-employer workplace.
Industry:Fire safety
An emergency vehicle designed to carry various support equipment and personnel to a scene of a hazardous material incident.
Industry:Fire safety
An emergency where operator action can minimize harm to people or property.
Industry:Fire safety
An employee who is not a member of an industrial fire brigade but who has been trained to use portable fire extinguishers or small hose lines to fight incipient fires in the employee’s immediate work area.
Industry:Fire safety
An emergency operation intended to switch off the supply of the electrical energy to all or part of an installation.
Industry:Fire safety
An emergency service that allows personnel trained in two service functions, such as fire suppression and emergency medical care, to function in either role.
Industry:Fire safety