EN ISO 17491-1 Protective Clothing - Test Methods for Clothing Protecting Against Chemicals - Part 1: Determination of Resistance to Outside Gas Leakage

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EN ISO 17491-1 Protective Clothing - Test Methods for Clothing Protecting Against Chemicals - Part 1: Determination of Resistance to Outside Gas Leakage

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of EN ISO 17491-1 testing. This part of EN ISO 17491 specifies a method to be performed at minimum test settings (Method 1) or more stringent test settings (Method 2) to evaluate the resistance of a gastight suit to air penetration through the sample.

EN ISO 17491-1 Protective Clothing - Test Methods for Clothing Protecting Against Chemicals - Part 1: Determination of Resistance to Outside Gas Leakage

This test does not simulate the inward penetration of gases. Although the danger to the user is due to inward leakage, this test method evaluates the outward air leakage after the gastight suit has been inflated to stretch the construction material, thus allowing the test method to detect very minor defects.

Chemical protective clothing is worn with appropriate respiratory protection devices to isolate the wearer's body from the environment. A variety of tests are available to determine the resistance of chemical protective clothing materials to the penetration or penetration of gaseous or liquid chemicals.

However, the effectiveness of the overall protective clothing item in preventing exposure to chemical hazards depends on the integrity of the clothing item's design to prevent or reduce the inward leakage of chemicals.

The selection of the appropriate integrity test method will depend on the application of the chemical protective clothing and the exposure hazards present. Usually the integrity test method will be specified in the general chemical protective clothing specification.

This International standard specifies six different test methods for determining the full protective clothing's resistance to the ingress of gaseous or liquid chemicals (protective clothing integrity). These test methods apply to liquid or gaseous chemicals or aerosols and vary in severity.

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