- 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 enclosed space extending through one or more stories and connecting vertical openings through two or more successive floors of a building or through floors and roof.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed space connecting a room or compartment with an exit that includes normal extensions, such as lobbies and other enlarged spaces.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed roadway for motor vehicle traffic with vehicle access that is limited to portals.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed or semi-enclosed space on a marine vessel in which piping contains compressed natural gas or where fuel containers or the engine room or compartment is located.
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 enclosed control space outside the hoistway, intended for full bodily entry, that contains the elevator motor controller. The room could also contain electrical and/or mechanical equipment used directly in connection with the elevator or dumbwaiter but not the electric driving machine or the hydraulic machine.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed laser with an assigned class number higher than the inherent capability of the laser system in which it is incorporated, where the system’s lower classification is appropriate due to the engineering features limiting accessible emission.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed control space outside the hoistway, intended for full bodily entry, that contains the elevator motor controller. The room could also contain electrical and/or mechanical equipment used directly in connection with the elevator or dumbwaiter but not the electric driving machine or the hydraulic machine.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars, with additional functions as permitted in NFPA 70. Raceways include, but are not limited to, rigid metal conduit, rigid nonmetallic conduit, intermediate metal conduit, liquidtight flexible conduit, flexible metallic tubing, flexible metal conduit, electrical nonmetallic tubing, electrical metallic tubing, underfloor raceways, cellular concrete floor raceways, cellular metal floor raceways, surface raceways, wireways, and busways.
Industry:Fire safety
An enclosed compartment within, or attached to, an aircraft fuselage that is separate from the passenger and flight crew areas and that is almost always accessible only from the exterior of the fuselage.
Industry:Fire safety
