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National Fire Protection Association
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 area covered by notification appliances that are activated simultaneously.
Industry:Fire safety
An area containing or designed to contain a laundry tray, clothes washer, or a clothes dryer.
Industry:Fire safety
An area as defined by the AHJ typically a width of 9. 14 m (30 ft) or more between an improved property and a potential wildland fire where combustible materials and vegetation have been removed or modified to reduce the potential for fire on improved property spreading to wildland fuels or to provide a safe working area for fire fighters protecting life and improved property from wildland fire.
Industry:Fire safety
An arc-rated FR hood that protects the neck and head except for facial area of the eyes and nose.
Industry:Fire safety
An architectural or mechanical component of a building, facility, space, or site.
Industry:Fire safety
An architectural element composed of displayed text or numbers or symbolic, tactile, or pictorial information.
Industry:Fire safety
An approximate value of voltage used to identify a type of battery.
Industry:Fire safety
An approved, third-party organization that is independent of the grading and inspection agencies, and the lumber mills, and that initially accredits and subsequently monitors, on a continuing basis, the competency and performance of a grading or inspection agency related to carrying out specific tasks.
Industry:Fire safety
An approved, portable device that is carried and operated by hand and contains an extinguishing agent that can be expelled under pressure for the purpose of suppressing or extinguishing fire.
Industry:Fire safety
An approved secure box, accessible by the authority having jurisdiction’s master key or control, containing entrance keys or other devices to gain access to a structure or area.
Industry:Fire safety
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