- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
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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.
Equipment sealed against the entrance of an external atmosphere where the seal is made by fusion, for example, soldering, brazing, welding, or the fusion of glass to metal.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment or materials to which has been attached a label, symbol, or other identifying mark of an organization that is acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction and concerned with product evaluation, that maintains periodic inspection of production of labeled equipment or materials, and by whose labeling the manufacturer indicates compliance with appropriate standards or performance in a specified manner.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment or devices for managing infection exposure, airways, spinal immobilization, fracture immobilization, shock, and bleeding control.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment located at the telephone company wire center that monitors each local leg and relays status changes to the alarm center. Processors and associated equipment might also be included.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment items that are load-bearing and designed to be utilized with life safety rope and harness, such as ascending devices, carabiners, descent control devices, rope grab devices, and snap-links.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment installed in and made a part of the vent to provide the required flow of gases through the vent.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment having electrical/electronic circuitry that is incapable, under normal operating conditions, of causing ignition of a specified flammable gas-air, vapor-air, or dust-air mixture due to arcing or thermal means.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment enclosed in a manner that excludes dusts and does not permit arcs, sparks, or heat otherwise generated or liberated inside of the enclosure to cause ignition of exterior accumulations or atmospheric suspensions of a specified dust on or in the vicinity of the enclosure.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment enclosed in a case or cabinet that is provided with a means of sealing or locking so that live parts cannot be made accessible without opening the enclosure. The equipment may or may not be operable without opening the enclosure.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment designed to protect the wearer from the inhalation of contaminants.
Industry:Fire safety
