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National Fire Protection Association
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 component of the fire alarm system, provided with primary and secondary power sources, which receives signals from initiating devices or other fire alarm control units, and processes these signals to determine part or all of the required fire alarm system output function(s).
Industry:Fire safety
A component of the system, provided with primary and secondary power sources, which receives signals from initiating devices or other control units, and processes these signals to determine part or all of the required system output function(s).
Industry:Fire safety
A component of an organizational fire and life safety education strategy with a predetermined time frame.
Industry:Fire safety
A component of an element used to insert or withdraw objects, or to activate, deactivate, or adjust the element.
Industry:Fire safety
A component of a shoring system with a large surface area supported by the uprights and cross-bracing of the shoring system that is used to retain the earth in position when loose or running soils are encountered.
Industry:Fire safety
A component of a public fire and life safety education program.
Industry:Fire safety
A component of a program in which the educator directly presents fire or life safety information to a group.
Industry:Fire safety
A component of a division or bulkhead.
Industry:Fire safety
A component integrated within the protective coat element to aid in the rescue of an incapacitated fire fighter.
Industry:Fire safety
A component having contacts for making or breaking an incendive circuit and the contacting mechanism is constructed so that the component is incapable of igniting the specified flammable gas-air or vapor-air mixture. The housing of a nonincendive component is not intended to exclude the flammable atmosphere or contain an explosion.
Industry:Fire safety