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National Fire Protection Association
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 system to provide indication and warning of emergency situations involving hazardous materials and summon appropriate aid.
Industry:Fire safety
A system to evaluate and rate pertinent factors such as fire and weather history, fuels, improvements, topography and access to develop and implement mitigation strategies.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that utilizes fans to produce pressure differences so as to manage smoke movement.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that utilizes a machine-produced electric shock to abolish a life-threatening heart rhythm.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that uses a venturi eductor installed in a bypass line between the discharge and suction side of a water pump and suitable variable or fixed orifices to induct foam concentrate from a tank or container into the pump suction line.
Industry:Fire safety
A structure that is able to withstand the forces imposed on it by a cave-in and thereby protect employees within the structures.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that supports unstable surfaces.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that readily identifies both the location and function of all members operating at an incident scene.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that provides the architecture to support coordination for incident prioritization, critical resource allocation, communications systems integration, and information coordination.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that provides graphical monitoring and manual overriding capability over smoke-control systems and equipment at designated location(s) within the building for the use of the fire department.
Industry:Fire safety