Protective Clothing Standards

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worker donning pyrolon secondary fr workwear by Lakeland Industries
How Do You Know Your FR Clothing Will Protect You?
Many safety managers face the need for workers to be protected from both flash fire and chemical hazards at the...
Is Your Combination of PPE Putting Workers at Risk?

On 4th of May Lakeland presented a live webinar in conjunction with UK based Health & Safety International and Health...

Differences in Primary and Secondary FR Clothing

Primary FR workwear is an important PPE need in many industries – especially oil & gas. Selection and performance are...

What You Should Know about a Declaration of Conformity for PPE

Verification and a full understanding of CE certification is vital when it comes to providing a comprehensive and documented response...

How to Maximize the Comfort of Your Chemical Suit

No chemical protective clothing is comfortable to wear. Comfort is primarily governed by the air permeability of fabric, and fabric...

Webinar: Using Global Safety Standards

In a recent webinar I shared insights on global safety standards, gathered from 30 years of experience in the protective...

EN Clothing Types Compared to OSHA Protection Levels

EN standards define 5 “Types” of application-based chemical protective clothing. But what do they mean and how do they differ...

Storage & Disposal of Chemical Protective Clothing

Any program for selection, management and use of chemical protective PPE should include an assessment of storage and disposal requirements....

PPE Protection Types

CE standards generally treat types of protection as neat, separate issues… protection against chemicals; or protection against heat and flame;...

How To Use Mechanical Property Information for Safety Garments

European EN standards can sometimes be too complex for their own good. Despite that, when it comes to using standards...

Health & Safety at Work: Misunderstanding PPE

What are the real-world implications of these often very common misunderstandings? This blog looks at three of the myths in...

Chemical Safety at Work: Permeation Test Breakthrough Is Not What You Think It Is…

Our blog “Health & Safety at Work: The Hidden Killers” looked at the the nature of many chemicals that make...

EN 1149 Anti-Static Standard

EN 1149 is well known as the standard for anti-static garments and most users of disposable and chemical protective safety...

Protective Garments for Industrial Heat Types

In the petrochemical environment, workers can come into contact with flammable substances which can have serious consequences when the right...

Why Read the PPE User Instructions?

In this blog, I’ll explain why careful reading of safety equipment and clothing user instructions can be vital and look...

Benefits of Regulation 2016/425 for Safety Managers

Though well-established and legally binding, as with all EU Directives, the PPE Directive 89/686 EEC, required each member state to...

EN 14116 Standard on Secondary FR Disposable Coveralls

Secondary FR disposables and chemical suits provide an important function – especially in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries –...

Understanding Different Types of CE Standards

As the number of CE standards increases, so does the rate at which standards are withdrawn and replaced by new...

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