- Industrie: 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 type of collapse characterized by an interior portion of the trench wall spalling out and potentially leaving an overhanging ledge or void that needs to be filled.
Industry:Fire safety
A type of CBRN protective ensemble that provides vaportight or liquidtight protection to the upper and lower torso, head, hands, and feet and completely covers the wearer and the wearer’s respirator.
Industry:Fire safety
A type of CBRN protective ensemble and ensemble elements that provides liquid splash protection, but does not provide vaportight protection, or liquidtight protections, and does not cover the wearer’s respirator.
Industry:Fire safety
A type of battery tester that uses proprietary electronic circuitry to determine the condition, or state of health (SOH), of a vehicle battery and does not apply a resistive load during the test.
Industry:Fire safety
A two-way radio-equipped vehicle or person; also a two-way radio by itself that is associated with a vehicle or person.
Industry:Fire safety
A two-point lap belt, a three-point lap/shoulder belt, or a four-point lap/shoulder harness for vehicle occupants designed to limit their movement in the event of an accident, rapid acceleration, or rapid deceleration by securing individuals safely to a vehicle in a seated position.
Industry:Fire safety
A turbine-like device that transmits power solely through the action of a fluid in a closed circuit without direct mechanical connection between input and output shafts and without producing torque multiplication.
Industry:Fire safety
A turbine in which the rotating element is actuated by the pressure of combustion gases on curved vanes.
Industry:Fire safety
