Firefighter Protective Clothing.
Firefighter Protective Clothing.
(1077 K)
Braun, E.
NIST SP 911; February 1997.
Firefighter Thermal Exposure Workshop: Protective
Clothing, Tactics, and Fire Service PPE Training
Procedures. Proceedings. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. June 25-26, 1996,
Gaithersburg, MD, Lawson, J. R.; Jason, N. H.,
Editor(s)(s), 24-25 pp, 1997.
Order number: PB97-153712
Keywords:
fire fighters; protective clothing; burns (injuries);
fire departments; heat release rate; temperature
effects; training; conferences
Abstract:
Modern protective clothing (turnout gear) worn by
firefighters during the course of attacking a building
fire is intended to encapsulate the individual and
provide protection from the thermal environment -
thermal radiation, hot gas (convective heat transfer)
and contact with hot surfaces (conductive heat
transfer). The current turnout gear design is based on
years of field experience and some research, carried out
most actively during the past 25 years. While the
primary consideration has been thermal protection, other
issues relating to comfort and physical stress also have
been evaluated in garment design.
