- Branża: 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.
Activities of the emergency responders relating to rescue, fire suppression, emergency medical care, and special operations.
Industry:Fire safety
Activities and programs designed to return the entity to an acceptable condition.
Industry:Fire safety
Actions, components, capabilities, and design features necessary to achieve and maintain safe shutdown of the reactor after a fire in a specific fire area.
Industry:Fire safety
Actions that are intended to control a fire by limiting its spread to a defined area, avoiding the commitment of personnel and equipment to dangerous areas.
Industry:Fire safety
Actions taken if an impairment to a required system, feature, or component prevents that system, feature, or component from performing its intended function. These actions are a temporary alternative means of providing reasonable assurance that the necessary function will be compensated for during the impairment, or an act to mitigate the consequence of a fire. Compensatory measures include but are not limited to actions such as firewatches, administrative controls, temporary systems, and features of components.
Industry:Fire safety
Actions generally performed in the interior of involved structures that involve a direct attack on a fire to directly control and extinguish the fire.
Industry:Fire safety
Action taken to save or set free persons involved in an aircraft incident/accident by safeguarding the integrity of the aircraft fuselage from an external/internal fire, to support self-evacuation, and to undertake the removal of injured and trapped persons.
Industry:Fire safety
Action requiring personal intervention for its control. As applied to an electric controller, nonautomatic control does not necessarily imply a manual controller, but only that personal intervention is necessary.
Industry:Fire safety
Acting in conjunction; used to describe a situation wherein two or more control devices exist in an actuated condition at the same time (but not necessarily simultaneously).
Industry:Fire safety
Act upon the exposedand the immediate surroundings of the exposedto protectthe exposedagainst fireimpacts.
Industry:Fire safety
