What's the misunderstanding of purchasing ant-flame clothing?

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is becoming more and more widely used in daily life as well as in the workplace. However, although people are using labor protection supplies, but there are still many understandings about these products in general. Therefore，today Shanghai C&G Co.,ltd will take the procurement of flame resistant clothing as an example, to introduce a part of common misunderstandings, expect to help you.

1.The products that meet national standards are the "best" PPE?

This point, should be a common misunderstanding of most users, in the values of a large part of the population, if the product meets the relevant national standards, is the "best" one.

In fact, this is not the case. According to Shanghai C&G’s understanding, meeting the relevant safety standards in China is only the entry requirement for PPE, although the legal effect is the highest, but the technical specifications and requirements are the lowest.

For these supplies that will involve personal safety, the national safety standard is a bottom line, the bottom line that must be enforced. Therefore, people in the process of buying flame resistant clothing, Therefore, people in the process of buying flame resistant clothing, both to pay attention to flame resistant clothing is not in line with China's safety standards, but also from their own practical considerations, to increase or improve certain technical indicators, such as increased anti-static indicators, anti-chemical indicators.

Therefore, we expect you to keep in mind that the products that meet our National safety standards are only the standard products, if the products that meet the actual needs of users is the "best" product.

2.Does low cost of purchase equate to low cost of use?

I believe that controlling the purchase cost is something that every company will do. However, if you reduce the quality of the PPE in order to reduce the purchase cost, then is the PPE that you purchase still meet the needs of the company?

In fact, this is a misunderstanding that many companies have, believing that if the purchase cost is reduced, then the overall cost of the production line will also be reduced.

However, this is not actually the case. If by reducing the purchase cost, choose a part of the poor quality of PPE. Not to mention the effectiveness of the protection, in the use of the period, it will be shorter than the regular quality of products

Such as flame resistant clothing, if the quality of flame resistant clothing purchased is not good enough, if the clothing are washed a few times, then the flame resistant function will be reduced, so that the company will be faced with a choice, is to buy again, or risk then use. If you buy again, the cost will be higher than the original purchase.

3.Only consider the fabric, not the accessories?

There are some purchasers who usually only care about the fabric of the flame resistant clothing and ignore the accessories when they buy it. However, many times, it is because of these small details that are ignored that cause secondary injuries to occur.

In fact, in the national safety standards, there are clear requirements for accessories for flame resistant clothing, requiring that the exposed and then outside accessories must be made of flame resistant non-melting materials to prevent secondary burns, burns, etc. caused by high temperatures in the fire.

Common accessory materials for flame resistant clothing are: sewing thread, zippers, fasteners, etc.

4.Flame resistant clothing is a kind of clothing that is not afraid of fire?

In fact, people who have this misunderstanding are amateurs, we need to understand that flame resistant clothing is only a passive protection equipment, is a protective product that allows workers to quickly escape from danger in the event of a fire.

Professional firefighting protective clothing on the performance and structure of the more demanding needs, usually multi-layer structure, can withstand a lot of heat erosion, to protect the operator from heat damage, and must be worn by professionally trained firefighters to use, if non-professional personnel wearing fire-resistant protective clothing to carry out fire rescue, it is very dangerous.

These are a few of the more common misunderstandings when purchasing flame resistant clothing. Hope that will help you.