ISO Meeting – Day 4
Today’s meetings started with a visit to a nearby textile manufacturing facility; a really interesting visit to see the complex process in producing protective fabrics such as those used in our firefighting PPE. Today’s working groups were WG 4 Hazmat, WG 5 Rescue and a WG 2 item specific to the ISO 11999 ensemble standard. … Continued
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Day 3 of the ISO meetings on Firefighters PPE focused entirely on ISO 11999-3. This standard is for firefighters PPE for structural firefighting and continues the work on this document that began at the last meeting in Japan. Prior to Japan over 250 comments (60 pages) were received on the draft document and only a … Continued
Read more about ISO meeting – Day 3ISO Firefighters PPE Meeting- Day 2
Today’s meetings have discussed three specific areas wildland firefighting, compatibility of PPE and selection, use, care, and maintenance (SUCaM). The discussions within the wildland meeting focused on the need to revise the current wildland clothing standard EN ISO 15384, this document falls under the Vienna Agreement arrangements whereby CEN and ISO work in collaboration to … Continued
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Today see’s the start of the next round of ISO TC94 SC14 ‘Firefighters PPE’ Committee meeting being attended by our National PPE Technical Advisor Brett Egan-Briers. The meetings follow on from the previous meeting in Japan and last all week with a packed agenda of firefighters PPE standards to be discussed. The following standards are … Continued
Read more about ISO Meeting – Greenville, USA Day 1Blog 4 ISO Committee Japan
Today was the final day of the ISO Firefighters PPE meetings. The agenda covered discussions surrounding Part 1 of the ISO 11999 series of documents which have been the main topic of discussion throughout this week’s meetings. Part 1 ‘General’ is an introductory document to the following parts in the series and contains some general … Continued
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Day 3 of the ISO meetings has thankfully been less intense; focusing on the helmet and footwear parts of the ISO 11999 series of standards. Certainly, significantly less comments than previous days and more focused on editorial changes as opposed technical detail. Main focus of discussions for the helmet standard revolved around ease of cleaning, … Continued
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Day 2 of the ISO firefighters PPE meetings started with discussions on the 34 pages of comments made on the revision of the fire hood standard. As with the clothing discussions, there was passionate debate surrounding maintaining or increasing the levels of performance (protection). Whilst it is understood that these product standards provide the minimum … Continued
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ISO firefighters PPE meetings have officially started with a welcome from Deputy Chief Ono Osamu of the Tokyo Fire Department. The first meeting of the busy agenda concerned ISO 11999-3, the clothing part of the ensemble standard for PPE used by firefighters who are at risk of exposure to high levels of heat and/or to … Continued
Read more about Blog 1 – ISO Committee in JapanDesignation of EN469:2020
Please be advised that BS EN 469:2020 has become the new designated standard for firefighters PPE, replacing BS EN 469:2005. It is important to note that this standard has been designated with restrictions, as can be seen in the link below. Your attention is drawn to the wording within the National Forward of the standard … Continued
Read more about Designation of EN469:2020Update on impacts of the recent heatwave
The update attached, shares the impact felt by our suppliers of PPE and laundry services following the recent heatwave experienced in July and August, and how climate change is going to play a part in the future of Fire Structural PPE. Where the demands on the services provided reached their peak and the subsequent after … Continued
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