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National Fire Protection Association
업종: 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.
The use of the station by others who are neither transit system employees nor passengers.
Industry:Fire safety
The technique of welding and drilling on in-service tanks or containers that contain flammable, combustible, or other hazardous substances.
Industry:Fire safety
The time lapse from activation of a radio transmitter’s push-to-talk (PTT) switch to the receiving unit’s speaker emitting audio.
Industry:Fire safety
The weight of personal clothing and items for personal hygiene carried on the fire apparatus by each crew member when they expect the response to be of long duration.
Industry:Fire safety
The volume bounded by the sides and back closet walls and planes extending from the closet floor vertically to a height of 1. 8 m (6 ft) or to the highest clothes-hanging rod and parallel to the walls at a horizontal distance of 600 mm (24 in. ) from the sides and back of the closet walls, respectively, and continuing vertically to the closet ceiling parallel to the walls at a horizontal distance of 300 mm (12 in. ) or the width of the shelf, whichever is greater; for a closet that permits access to both sides of a hanging rod, this space includes the volume below the highest rod extending 300 mm (12 in. ) on either side of the rod on a plane horizontal to the floor extending the entire length of the rod. See Figure 410. 2.
Industry:Fire safety
The status of hose that has actually been deployed at an incident or during training whether or not water is running through the hose.
Industry:Fire safety
The terminal end or connection where a propane supply connector is attached.
Industry:Fire safety
The whole of the protective conductors and conductive parts used for protection against electric shock in the event of an insulation failure.
Industry:Fire safety
The stopping of machine motion, while retaining power to the machine actuators during the stopping process.
Industry:Fire safety
The underground service conductors between the street main, including any risers at a pole or other structure or from transformers, and the first point of connection to the service-entrance conductors in a terminal box or meter or other enclosure, inside or outside the building wall. Where there is no terminal box, meter, or other enclosure, the point of connection is considered to be the point of entrance of the service conductors into the building.
Industry:Fire safety