- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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For standpipe systems, pressure acting on a point in the system with a flow being delivered.
Industry:Fire safety
For the purpose of handling releases of flammable and combustible liquids and gases, a portable respiratory device that (1) is designed to protect the wearer from an oxygen-deficient or other hazardous atmosphere, (2) supplies a respirable atmosphere that is either carried on, in, or generated by the apparatus, and (3) is independent of the ambient environment.
Industry:Fire safety
For the purpose of Chapter 27, the terms “site” and “scene” will be jointly referred to as the “investigation site,” unless the particular context requires the use of one or the other word.
Industry:Fire safety
For road tunnels, bridges, and limited access highways, radio, telephone, and messaging throughout the facility and particularly at the operations control center.
Industry:Fire safety
For recreational vehicles, the exposed interior surface in combination with the substrate to which it is applied.
Industry:Fire safety
For recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds, that portion of a sewer system that receives the discharge from more than one sewer lateral.
Industry:Fire safety
For recreational vehicles, a grade or fall of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane.
Industry:Fire safety
For purposes of tank entry, cleaning, or repair, the joining of metal parts to form an electrically conductive path that will ensure electrical continuity and the capacity to conduct safely any current likely to be imposed.
Industry:Fire safety
For purposes of tank entry, cleaning, or repair, the process of displacing vapors or gases from an enclosure or confined space.
Industry:Fire safety
For purposes of this standard, medical air is air supplied from cylinders, bulk containers, medical air compressors, or has been reconstituted from oxygen USP and oil-free, dry nitrogen NF.
Industry:Fire safety
