- Industry: 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.
A system of using rope or cable suspended between two points for movement of persons or equipment over an area that is a barrier to the rescue operation, including systems capable of movement between points of equal or unequal height.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of smoke reservoirs, smoke vents, and/or dampers that are designed to support the tenability criteria without the use of fans.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of records storage, usually a type of open-shelf file equipment, also known as track files, compaction files, or movable files, in which sections or rows of shelves are manually or electrically moved on tracks to provide access aisles.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of rails, hangers, rollers, guides, binders, and closing devices that are self-closing by means of gravity, weights, and pulleys or spring-actuated devices.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of piping through which oil is supplied from a remote central supply tank or tanks to one or more buildings, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, or other structures.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of personnel protection devices and constructional features that when used together provide protection against electric shock of personnel.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of noninterchangeable medical gas and vacuum connectors complying with CGA V-5, Diameter-IndexSafetySystem(NoninterchangeableLowPressureConnectionsforMedicalGasApplications).
Industry:Fire safety
A system of circuits and equipment arranged for delayed, automatic, or manual connection to the alternate power source and that serves primarily 3-phase power equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of enclosures comprised of a base and a removable cover intended for the complete surrounding of insulated conductors, cables, and cords.
Industry:Fire safety
A system of either a UPS, a battery bank and battery charger (central battery system), or a rotating motor generator (with or without inertia flywheel), often supplied by a central battery system power source.
Industry:Fire safety
