How to buy chemical protective clothing correctly?

It is necessary to wear the chemical protective clothing to prevent various hazards whether it is chemical industry, laboratory or emergency rescue. As a special protective clothing, chemical protective clothing can provide multiple effective protection against uncertain explosions and various chemical hazards. You must be familiar with the correct and reasonable method of purchasing chemical protective clothing and fully consider the protective effect, comfort, durability and cost investment of chemical protective clothing and security, etc. Choose the appropriate chemical protective clothing and do not spend dime more. 

The types of hazards

Hazards can be classified as heat / flame, chemicals, radioactivity, biohazard, cutting, piercing, impact, crash or a combination of these types.

Frequency of use of chemical protective clothing

When you are choosing a chemical protective clothing, it is closely related to the actual working environment, whether to choose disposable chemical protection clothing or reusable chemical protection clothing. Meanwhile, enterprises are mainly concerned about the cost of chemical protective clothing. Remember that the fabric of disposable chemical protection clothing is non-woven microporous laminate film, the protection grade can only be D or C, but reusable protective clothing are usually made with artificial rubber or thermoplastic rubber, the protection grade is B or A, that is we often say grade A chemical protection clothing or grade B chemical protection clothing.

The laboratory or agricultural animal husbandry, chemical operators conventional configuration usually used grade D or C chemical protection clothing, it also can be used disposable chemical protection clothing which is low cost and light. In the situation of fire rescue, chemical raw material leakage and other emergency treatment, you can choose reusable chemical protective clothing and fully-enclosed chemical protective clothing which are with better protection effect.

Agility and weight

Extremely light weight and extremely high agility are critical factors for chemical protective clothing, due to these factors determine the wearer's range of activity and work fatigue. The disposable protective clothing with light weight has more advantages than reusable protective clothing.

Life span

Life span refers to the possibility that a protective clothing may degrade or lose its protective function after a certain period of time. If the chemical protective clothing does not pass the visual inspection and stress test, it can be downgraded as training suit. It is the responsibility of the wearer to ensure that the entire material composition of the suit, including the fabric, valves, windows, gloves, zippers and seams, is in good working condition and provides adequate protection.

If a chemical protective clothing fails the visual inspection or stress test, it should be eliminated directly.

In conclusion, the above are our points from Shanghai C&G Safety Company for your reference, hope it can help you to choose the correct reasonable chemical protective clothing. Actually the chemical protective clothing is the most common protective equipment, in addition to the correct choice of chemical clothing, we should also pay attention to the method of wearing and taking off, as well as the cleaning and maintenance of chemical clothing and other key points to ensure personal safety.