Emergency Preparedness in the Washington Metropolitan Area: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 16 and May 18, 1983, Issue 79

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Page 545 - The logical, systematic examination of an item and its diagram(s) to identify and analyze the probability, causes, and consequences of potential and real failures. Failure, Dependent One which is caused by the failure of an associated item(s).
Page 486 - ... authority having jurisdiction and concerned with product evaluation, that maintains periodic inspection of production of listed equipment or materials and whose listing states either that the equipment or material meets appropriate standards or has been tested and found suitable for use in a specified manner.
Page 487 - Means of egress shall be measured in units of exit width of 22 inches. Fractions of a unit shall not be counted, except that 12 inches added to one or more full units shall be counted as one-half a unit of exit width.
Page 332 - The subcommittee will stand in adjournment subject to the call of the Chair. [Whereupon, at...
Page 486 - ... the authority having jurisdiction may base acceptance on compliance with NFPA or other appropriate standards. In the absence of such standards, said authority may require evidence of proper installation, procedure or use. The authority having jurisdiction...
Page 391 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this agreement to be executed by their duly authorized officers, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed, as of the day and year first above written.
Page 547 - INTERLOCKING— An arrangement of signals and signal appliances so interconnected that their movements must succeed each other in proper sequence and for which interlocking rules are in effect. It may be operated manually or automatically.
Page 422 - Study of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Safety Procedures for the Proposed METRO System", NTSBRSS-70-1, September 28, 1970.
Page 486 - LABELED: Equipment or materials to which has been attached a label of a nationally recognized testing laboratory that maintains periodic inspection of production of labeled equipment or materials, and by whose labeling is indicated compliance with nationally recognized standards or the conduct of tests to determine suitable usage in a specified manner. AUTHORITY HAVING JURISDICTION: The organization, office or individual responsible for "approving...
Page 546 - Condition(s) such that personnel error, deficiency/inadequacy of design or subsystem/component malfunction will degrade system performance by personnel injury or substantial damage or will result in a hazard requiring immediate corrective action for personnel or system survival. Class IV - CATASTROPHIC.

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