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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 computerized mapping system used to track the location of vehicles.
Industry:Fire safety
A compressor that is designed to exclude oil from the air stream and compression chamber and that does not under normal operating conditions or any single fault add any toxic or flammable contaminants to the compressed air.
Industry:Fire safety
A compressed gas cylinder used for liquefied gas.
Industry:Fire safety
A compressed gas container used for ethylene oxide or flammable mixtures of ethylene oxide with other chemicals.
Industry:Fire safety
A comprehensive, coordinated arrangement of resources and functions that are organized to respond in a timely, staged manner to medical emergencies regardless of their cause.
Industry:Fire safety
A comprehensive strategy that addresses safety issues via educational means.
Industry:Fire safety
A comprehensive program designed to promote the member’s ability to perform occupational activities and to reduce or eliminate injuries and premature death.
Industry:Fire safety
A comprehensive evaluation of the risk of a facility or process; also referred to as a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA).
Industry:Fire safety
A component, system, or subsystem that independently duplicates the essential function of another component, system, or subsystem.
Industry:Fire safety
A component of total evacuation time that is the time during which there is crowd flow past a point in the means of egress system.
Industry:Fire safety