- Industria: 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.
An accessible clear space between storage piles or groups of piles suitable for housekeeping operations, visual inspection of piling areas, and initial fire-fighting operations.
Industry:Fire safety
An access door installed in the horizontal plane used to protect openings in ceilings of fire resistance-rated floor-ceiling or roof-ceiling assemblies.
Industry:Fire safety
An ac or dc electrical circuit, equipment, or system where the voltage to ground or from line to line is 30 volts (V) rms (ac) or 42. 4 V peak (dc) or greater.
Industry:Fire safety
An ac distribution center or box that contains one or more grounding-type polarized receptacles that may contain overcurrent protective devices.
Industry:Fire safety
An aboveground device through which passengers move between a point in an airport terminal building and an aircraft. Included in this category are walkways that are essentially fixed and permanently placed, or walkways that are essentially mobile in nature and that fold, telescope, or pivot from a fixed point at the airport terminal building.
Industry:Fire safety
An abnormal connection of low resistance between normal circuit conductors where the resistance is normally much greater. This is an overcurrent situation but it is not an overload.
Industry:Fire safety
