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- Title
Textiles for Personal Protection - An Overview.
- Authors
Muthukumar, N.; Thilagavathi, G.
- Abstract
The aspects of workers health and safety become more and more globally important which offers new or extended chances for the fabric and garment manufacturers. Millions of professionals need appropriate protective clothing against the risks of heat and flame, chemicals, harmful climate conditions or other extreme risks in their working environments. And both, awareness and desire to protect people during their work worldwide is increasingly in the focus of commonality and responsible organizations. The paper briefly describes the performance requirement as well as the design of specialized fabric to provide protection at the workplace.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL hygiene; FACTORY safety; INDUSTRIAL safety; TEXTILE factories; PROTECTIVE clothing
- Publication
Man-Made Textiles in India, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 4, p140
- ISSN
0377-7537
- Publication type
Article