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National Fire Protection Association
업종: Fire safety
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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 suite containing one or more patient beds intended for overnight sleeping.
Industry:Fire safety
A subsystem of the emergency system consisting of feeders and branch circuits, meeting the requirements of Article 700 and intended to provide adequate power needs to ensure safety to patients and personnel, and that are automatically connected to alternate power sources during interruption of the normal power source.
Industry:Fire safety
A subsystem of the emergency system consisting of feeders and branch circuits supplying energy to task illumination, special power circuits, and selected receptacles serving areas and functions related to patient care and that are connected to alternate power sources by one or more transfer switches during interruption of normal power source.
Industry:Fire safety
A substance, including combustible and flammable liquids and flammable gases, that is capable of creating harm to people, the environment, or property due to the dangers that can arise from but are not limited to toxicity, reactivity, ignitibility, or corrosivity.
Industry:Fire safety
A substance with one or more of the following hazard ratings as defined in NFPA 704, StandardSystemfortheIdentificationoftheHazardsofMaterialsforEmergencyResponse: Health — 2, 3, or 4; Flammability — 2, 3, or 4; Instability — 2, 3, or 4.
Industry:Fire safety
A substance that, by reason of being explosive, flammable, poisonous, corrosive, oxidizing, irritating, or otherwise harmful, is likely to cause death or injury.
Industry:Fire safety
A substance (usually liquid) capable of dissolving or dispersing another substance; a chemical compound designed and used to convert solidified grease into a liquid or semiliquid state in order to facilitate a cleaning operation.
Industry:Fire safety
A subsequent collapse in a building or excavation.
Industry:Fire safety
A subframe, usually channel shaped, attached to an existing wall to which the finished frame is attached.
Industry:Fire safety
A subframe attached to a rough buck to which the door is attached.
Industry:Fire safety