- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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For purposes of tank entry, cleaning, or repair, any substance that exists in the gaseous state at normal atmospheric temperature and pressure and that is capable of being ignited and burned when mixed with the proper proportions of air, oxygen, or other oxidizer.
Industry:Fire safety
For purposes of tank entry, cleaning, or repair, a tank that meets all three of the requirements for a confined space and also has one or more of the following four characteristics: (1) contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous substance, (2) contains a material with the potential to engulf an entrant, (3) has an internal configuration such that an entrant could become trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or floor that slope downwards, tapering to small cross sections, (4) contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard.
Industry:Fire safety
For kitchen exhaust systems and cooking equipment, the act of removing grease, oil deposits, and other residue.
Industry:Fire safety
For purposes of tank entry, cleaning, or repair, a space that previously was a confined space but no longer meets any of the requirements for a confined space or a permit required confined space, such as a tank with a large door sheet cut into the side.
Industry:Fire safety
For fuel in the reactor vessel, head on and tensioned, safe and stable conditions are defined as the ability to maintain Keff<0. 99, with a reactor coolant temperature at or below the requirements for hot shutdown for a boiling water reactor and hot standby for a pressurized water reactor. For all other configurations, safe and stable conditions are defined as maintaining Keff<0. 99 and fuel coolant temperature below boiling.
Industry:Fire safety
For audio amplifiers of the constant-voltage type, the nominal output voltage when the amplifier is delivering full rated power. Rated output voltage is used for determining approximate acoustic output in distributed speaker systems that typically employ impedance matching transformers. Typical ratings are 25 volts, 70. 7 volts, and 100 volts.
Industry:Fire safety
For application of the life safety requirements in Section 20. 7, the resident user category is divided into the five use conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
For all matters related to installation in flood hazard areas, the term newmanufacturedhomeparkorsubdivisionshall mean a home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the sites (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or installation of pads) is completed on or after the effective date of the initial adoption of floodplain management regulations or map by the AHJ.
Industry:Fire safety
For all matters related to installation in flood hazard areas, the term manufacturedhomeparkorsubdivisionshall mean a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more manufactured home sites for sale or rent.
Industry:Fire safety
For all matters related to installation in flood hazard areas, the term existingmanufacturedhomeparkorsubdivisionshall mean a home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the sites (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or installation of pads) was completed prior to the effective date of the initial adoption of floodplain management regulations or map by the AHJ.
Industry:Fire safety
