Flame Retardent Apparel Saves Lives

Millions of workers everyday risk their lives due to potential work hazards such as molten metal splashes, flash fires, and electrical arc flashes.  Many times, the only thing standing between them and a serious injury, or even death, is protective clothing. It takes only seconds for a sudden electric arc, flash fire or molten met splash to engulf a worker in searing temperatures that will ignite flame resistant clothing with lightning speed.  

But more critically, average, non-flame resistant work clothes continue to burn even when the source of ignition is no longer present.  That is why OSHA standards now require employers to ensure that “each employee who is exposed to the hazards of flames or electric arcs does not wear clothing that, when exposed to flames or electric arcs, could increase the extent of injury that would be sustained by the employee”.  

Using flame resistant apparel provides the wearer with thermal protection, shielding them at the point of exposure.  What‚s more, once the source of ignition has subsided; the garments are designed to self-extinguish, greatly reducing the chances of a serious burn injury.  This can mean the difference between a minor accident and a devastating fatality.