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The protocol prohibits, in all circumstances, making the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat or a combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target.
A fire safety plan is required by all North American national, state and provincial fire codes based on building use or occupancy types. Generally, the owner of the building is responsible for the preparation of a fire safety plan. Buildings with elaborate emergency systems may require the assistance of a fire protection consultant.
The concept has important practical use in fire safety engineering. For instance, to safely fill a new container or a pressure vessel with flammable gases, the atmosphere of normal air (containing 20.9 volume percent of oxygen) in the vessel would first be flushed (purged) with nitrogen or another non-flammable inert gas, thereby reducing the ...
UN 2010: 4.3: Magnesium hydride: UN 2011: 4.3: Magnesium phosphide: UN 2012: 4.3: Potassium phosphide: UN 2013: 4.3: Strontium phosphide: UN 2014: 5.1: Hydrogen peroxide, aqueous solutions with more than 20 percent but not more than 60 percent hydrogen peroxide (stabilized as necessary) UN 2015: 5.1
Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires. [1] [2] It involves the study of the behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of mitigating systems.
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