- 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.
A pictorial symbol that represents activities, facilities, or concepts.
Industry:Fire safety
A physician trained in emergency medicine, designated as a medical director for the local EMS agency.
Industry:Fire safety
A natural or artificial barrier that effectively screens a magazine, building, railway, or highway from the effects of an explosion in a magazine or building containing explosives.
Industry:Fire safety
A photovoltaic array that has two outputs, each having opposite polarity to a common reference point or center tap.
Industry:Fire safety
A philosophy whereby risk insights are considered together with other factors to establish performance requirements that better focus attention on design and operational issues commensurate with their importance to public health and safety.
Industry:Fire safety
A phenomenon that occurs when moisture chemically reacts with a dry chemical fire-extinguishing agent. This reaction results in materials that, being hydrated by moisture, stick together to form a large agglomerate, or what is more commonly referred to as lumps.
Industry:Fire safety
A person, through the age of 18, or as defined by the authority having jurisdiction, who is involved in the act of firesetting.
Industry:Fire safety
A person, such as a commercial grower, a certified applicator, a pest control operator, a fumigator, or a greenhouse operator, who stores pesticides in a storage building or storage area to which the public ordinarily does not have access.
Industry:Fire safety
A person, organization, or enterprise engaged in, or offering to engage in, aircraft operation.
Industry:Fire safety
A person involved in performing the duties and responsibilities of a fire department under the auspices of the organization.
Industry:Fire safety
