- 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.
A dedicated operations center where the agency controls and coordinates the facility operations and from which communication is maintained with the agency’s supervisory and operating personnel and with participating agencies where required.
Industry:Fire safety
A dedicated or shared-duty fan system designed and suitable for the removal of heat and smoke.
Industry:Fire safety
A dedicated visual display of an operating trend(s) by any instrument such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), chart recorder, or other device to quantify changes in the measured variable(s).
Industry:Fire safety
A deep, two-story wastewater treatment tank consisting of an upper continuous-flow sedimentation chamber and a lower sludge digestion chamber.
Industry:Fire safety
A definable area, such as a room, toilet room, hall, assembly area, entrance, storage room, alcove, courtyard, or lobby.
Industry:Fire safety
A defined rectangular area on a land airport prepared for the landing and taking off of aircraft along its length. Runways are normally numbered relative to their magnetic direction.
Industry:Fire safety
A defined space in which the concentration of airborne particles is controlled to specified limits.
Industry:Fire safety
A deflagration resulting from the sudden introduction of air into a confined space containing oxygen-deficient products of incomplete combustion.
Industry:Fire safety
A department store or major merchandising center that has direct access to the covered mall but in which all required means of egress is independent of the covered mall.
Industry:Fire safety
A description of performance derived from testing or evaluation that guides appropriate selection, installation, and use of equipment that is not listed.
Industry:Fire safety
