- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 nationally recognized curriculum to teach advanced methods of treatment for cardiac and other emergencies.
Industry:Fire safety
A national organization of emergency medical physicians and other professionals.
Industry:Fire safety
A national organization of emergency medical physicians.
Industry:Fire safety
A national initiative to reduce child and youth disability and death from severe illness or injury.
Industry:Fire safety
A narrow, watertight compartment through which the propeller shaft passes from the aft engine room bulkhead to the propeller.
Industry:Fire safety
A municipally or privately owned and approved community water supply system designed to distribute water to consumers within a defined geographical area.
Industry:Fire safety
A multiplier of the agent flame extinguishing or inerting concentration to determine the agent minimum design concentration.
Industry:Fire safety
A multiplier of an ac motor that, when applied to the rated horsepower, indicates a permissible horsepower loading that can be carried at the rated voltage, frequency, and temperature. For example, the multiplier 1. 15 indicates that the motor is permitted to be overloaded to 1. 15 times the rated horsepower.
Industry:Fire safety
A multiplexing system in which signaling devices such as transponders are employed to transmit status signals of each initiating device or initiating device circuit within a prescribed time interval so that the lack of receipt of such a signal can be interpreted as a trouble signal.
Industry:Fire safety
A multiple occupancy where the occupancies are separated by fire resistance-rated assemblies.
Industry:Fire safety
