Prevention & protection

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Dry chemical closed recovery system

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A system that is constructed in a manner that does not introduce foreign material into the agent being recovered and has a means of visually inspecting the recovered agent for contaminants.

Booster supplied air system

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A system that is capable of increasing air pressure from an air storage system or a compressor system.

A system having predetermined flow rates, nozzle pressures, and quantities of agent. These systems have the specific pipe size, maximum and minimum pipe lengths, flexible hose specifications, number ...

Incident management system (IMS)

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A system that defines the roles and responsibilities to be assumed by personnel and the operating procedures to be used in the management and direction of emergency operations; the system is also ...

Central premix system

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A system that distributes flammable gas-air mixtures to two or more remote stations.

Public alerting system (PAS)

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A system that creates, transmits, and displays a public alert message or sounds a signal, or both, that is intended to alert the public to situations that could result in loss of life, endanger their ...

Peripheral vapour containment

Fire safety; Prevention & protection

A system that cools the perimeter of a vapour degreaser tank near its top for the purpose of condensing a saturated vapour blanket from boiling flammable solvent.