- 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 enclosure or space where one or more persons are present under normal circumstances.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure or space that has dimensions and physical characteristics such that it could be entered by a person.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure or guard constructed around but separate from a dipping or coating process whose purpose is other than for fire protection, confinement of a possible fire, or confinement of vapor or mists.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure or space not normally occupied but one that could be entered occasionally by one or more persons for brief periods.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure of any type, including but not limited to silos, dust collectors, enclosed conveyors, bins, bunkers, rooms, and buildings where a deflagration hazard exists.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure located over or adjacent to a hydrant or other water supply designed to contain the necessary hose nozzles, hose wrenches, gaskets, and spanners to be used in fire fighting in conjunction with and to provide aid to the local fire department.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed machinery space outside the hoistway, intended for full bodily entry, that contains the electrical driving machine or the hydraulic machine. The room could also contain electrical and/or mechanical equipment used directly in connection with the elevator or dumbwaiter.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure for use in underground systems, provided with an open or closed bottom, and sized to allow personnel to reach into, but not enter, for the purpose of installing, operating, or maintaining equipment or wiring or both.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosure designed to limit the movement of products of combustion produced by a fire.
Industry:Fire safety
