- 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 dowel or pin that projects from a door jamb into an opening in the edge of a door at its hinge that prevents removal of the locked door even if the hinges or hinge pins are removed.
Industry:Fire safety
A drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted fixtures to a common trap.
Industry:Fire safety
A drawing or other document provided by the manufacturer of the intrinsically safe or associated apparatus, or of the nonincendive field wiring apparatus or associated nonincendive field wiring apparatus, that details the allowed interconnections between the intrinsically safe and associated apparatus or between the nonincendive field wiring apparatus or associated nonincendive field wiring apparatus.
Industry:Fire safety
A dripproof machine whose ventilating openings are guarded in accordance with the definition for dripproof motor.
Industry:Fire safety
A driver or passenger compartment on the fire apparatus that provides total enclosure on all sides, top, and bottom and has positive latching on all access doors.
Industry:Fire safety
A drop diameter such that the cumulative volume, from zero diameter to this respective diameter, is the fraction, f, of the corresponding sum of the total distribution.
Industry:Fire safety
A dust capable of spontaneous combustion or of exploding or burning when subjected to a source of ignition.
Industry:Fire safety
A fabricated assembly of insulated conductors in a flexible metallic enclosure. See 320. 100.
Industry:Fire safety
A facility comprising one or more berths, slips, piers, wharves, loading and unloading areas, warehouses, and storage yards used for the transfer of people and/or cargo between waterborne carriers and land.
Industry:Fire safety
