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National Fire Protection Association
Industrie: 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.
Contact of persons with exposed conductive parts that have become live under fault conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
Construction-related controls specified for buildings, and portions thereof, where high hazard contents are stored, used, or handled in quantities greater than the maximum allowable quantity per control area as specified in NFPA5000. The requirements for construction vary with the type of hazardous materials employed.
Industry:Fire safety
Construction that utilizes masonry, steel, and concrete in various combinations, including tilt-up, steel frame with infill, concrete moment resisting frame, concrete shearwall, unreinforced masonry infill in concrete frame, and precast concrete.
Industry:Fire safety
Construction in which the structural members, including walls, partitions, columns, floors, and roof construction, have fire resistance ratings of time duration not less than that specified in this standard.
Industry:Fire safety
Construction designed to provide reasonable protection against fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Constructed, protected, or treated so as to prevent rain from interfering with the successful operation of the apparatus under specified test conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
Constructed or protected so that exposure to a beating rain will not result in the entrance of water under specified test conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
Constructed and performing in such a manner as not to permit the passage of any liquid at any temperature.
Industry:Fire safety
Constructed and performing in such a manner as not to permit the passage of any grease under normal cooking conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
Consists of the fully assembled vehicle, complete with a full complement of crew, fuel, and fire-fighting agents.
Industry:Fire safety