Performance of Protective Clothing and Equipment: Emerging Issues and Technologies

STP Published: 2012

STP1544-EB

Performance of Protective Clothing and Equipment: Emerging Issues and Technologies

Editor(s): A.M. Shepherd

Twenty-two peer-reviewed papers cover the latest information on the performance of protective clothing for government and industrial workers, first responders, and civilians.

Topics cover:
• Evaluation of Fire-resistant Clothing Using an Instrumented Mannequin
• Assessing User Needs and Perceptions of Firefighter PPE
• Interlaboratory Study of ASTM F2731, Measuring the Transmitted and Stored Energy of Firefighter Protective Clothing Systems
• NDT Methods to Assess the Level of Damage to Firefighters’ Protective Clothing
• Protective Clothing for Pesticide Operators
• Puncture Resistance of Protective Gloves to Needles

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Field Analysis of Arc-Flash Incidents and the Related PPE Protective Performance

Daniel R. Doan, Elihu “Hugh” Hoagland, Thomas E. Neal

Evaluation of Fire-resistant Clothing Using an Instrumented Mannequin: A Comparison of Exposure Test Conditions Set With a Cylinder Form or Mannequin Form

M. Y. Ackerman, E. M. Crown, J. D. Dale, S. Paskaluk

Translation between Heat Loss Measured Using Guarded Sweating Hot Plate, Sweating Manikin, and Physiologically Assessed Heat Stress of Firefighter Turnout Ensembles

Kevin Ross, Roger Barker, A. Shawn Deaton

Analysis of Physical and Thermal Comfort Properties of Chemical Protective Clothing

ShuQin Wen, Guowen Song, Scott Duncan

Chemical Protection Garment Redesign for Military Use by the Laboratory for Engineered Human Protecton Years 2005–2011

Kristen L. Hultzapple, Stephen S. Hirsch, John Venafro, Stephen Frumkin, Janet Brady, Carole Winterhalter, Scena Proodian

Evaluation of Thermal Comfort of Fabrics Using a Controlled-Environment Chamber

John D. Pierce, Stephen S. Hirsch, Sara Beth Kane, John A. Venafro, Carole A. Winterhalter

Effects of Overgarment Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate on Human Thermal Comfort

Carole Winterhalter, Quoc Truong, Thomas Endrusick, Armand Cardello, Larry Lesher

Assessing User Needs and Perceptions of Firefighter PPE

Jessica Barker, Lynn M. Boorady, Shu-Hwa Lin, Young-A Lee, Beth Esponnette, Susan P. Ashdown

Developing a Thermal Sensor for Use in the Fingers of the PyroHands Fire Test System

Alexander Hummel, Roger Barker, Kevin Lyons, A. Shawn Deaton, John Morton-Aslanis

Interlaboratory Study of ASTM F2731, Standard Test Method for Measuring the Transmitted and Stored Energy of Firefighter Protective Clothing Systems

L. Deuser, R. Barker, A. S. Deaton, A. Shepherd

Non-destructive Test Methods to Assess the Level of Damage to Firefighters' Protective Clothing

Moein Rezazadeh, David A. Torvi

Dual-mode Analytical Permeation System for Precise Evaluation of Porous and Nonporous Chemical Protective Materials

Douglas L. MacTaggart, Sherry O. Farwell, Zhongtao Cai, Pauline Smith

Factors Influencing the Uptake Rate of Passive Adsorbent Dosimeters Used in the Man-in-Simulant-Test

R. Bryan Ormond, Roger Barker, Keith Beck, Donald Thompson, Shawn Deaton

Destructive Adsorption for Enhanced Chemical Protection

S. Kay Obendorf, Ellan F. Spero

Protective Clothing for Pesticide Operators: The Past, Present, and Proposed Plans

Anugrah Shaw

Garment Specifications and Mock-ups for Protection from Steam and Hot Water

Sihong Yu, Megan Strickfaden, Elizabeth Crown, Sara Olsen

Development of a Test Apparatus/Method and Material Specifications for Protection from Steam under Pressure

M. Y. Ackerman, E. M. Crown, J. D. Dale, G. Murtaza, J. Batcheller, J. A. Gonzalez

Apparatus for Use in Evaluating Protection from Low Pressure Hot Water Jets

S. H. Jalbani, M. Y. Ackerman, E. M. Crown, M. van Keulen, G. Song

Analysis of Test Parameters and Criteria for Characterizing and Comparing Puncture Resistance of Protective Gloves to Needles

Chantal Gauvin, Olivier Darveau, Charlotte Robin, Jaime Lara

Characterization of the Resistance of Protective Gloves to Pointed Blades

Patricia I. Dolez, Mariem Azaiez, Toan Vu-Khanh

Methods for Measuring the Grip Performance of Structural Firefighting Gloves

Kevin Ross, Roger Barker, Jessica Watkins, A. Shawn Deaton

A New Test Method to Characterize the Grip Adhesion of Protective Glove Materials

Chantal Gauvin, Alexandre Airoldi, Simon Proulx-Croteau, Patricia I. Dolez, Jaime Lara

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Developed by Committee: F23

Pages: 435

DOI: 10.1520/STP1544-EB

ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-7530-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-7562-4