What are the application areas of flame retardant clothing?

Flame-resistant clothing is mainly used in industrial furnaces, metal thermal processing, welding, chemical industry, petroleum and other fields. After contacting with flames and hot objects, it can slow down the flame to burn and protect the human body from fire damage of clothing burning.

Domestic metallurgy, chemical, petroleum, forestry, fire protection, electric power and other industries have passed various relevant laws and regulations to stipulate that protective clothing with flame-resistant properties should be added to the corresponding posts.

The "Labor Protection Equipment Standards (Trial)" (China Economic and Trade Commission Safety [2000] No. 189) is clearly put forward the regulation of the foundry workers, electric welders, thermal operators, mechanical gas generators, furnace workers, glass melting chemicals and similar types of work to wear flame-resistant clothing.

According to the special nature of various positions and employees’ workplaces, C&G sorted out the key points that should be paid attention to when purchasing flame-resistant overalls.

Flame resistant clothing with anti-static performance shall be added for workplaces prone to electrostatic sparks, workplaces with anti-static provisions, belongs to the explosion hazard zone of zone 0 and zone 1, and the small ignition energy of combustibles is below 0.25J.

In full of dust workplaces should be equipped with flame-resistant clothing with dust-proof function.

Foundry workers, electric welders and other workplaces where metal droplets are splashed should be equipped with welding clothing.

Thermal operators, mechanical gas producers, foremen and other workplaces with fire radiation shall be equipped with white flag cloth flame-resistant clothing or aluminum-coated flame-resistant clothing with good heat insulation and heat radiation resistance.

Working on high-voltage equipment with a voltage of 500KV and below should be equipped with electric conductive suit.

Working in workplaces with high humidity or where there are a lot of vaporizable liquids, flame-resistant work clothes with waterproof function should be equipped to avoid the danger of scalding when the protective clothing absorbs water and vaporizes; If there is flammable liquid in the workplace, it should be equipped with anti-seepage flame-resistant work clothes to prevent the work clothes from losing the flame-resistant function after absorbing the flammable liquid; If there are corrosive chemical substances in the workplace, flame-resistant work clothes with chemical protection functions should be equipped to prevent the work clothes from being saturated with harmful chemicals and causing damage to the workers.

The color of the work clothes should be in harmony with the workplace to ensure that the contaminated dirt is clearly visible, and reflective safety signs should be affixed when necessary.

According to the working nature of workers in different workplaces, flame-resistant work clothes should be used in conjunction with head, eye, face, hand, and foot protection products to complete the overall protection of workers.

In fact, the application field of flame-resistant clothing is very wide, but for different working environments, when we choose flame-resistant clothing, the raw material requirements may be different.