Hazards and Safety Standards

ANSI 107

ANSI 107 is used as a guide for the design, performance specifications and use of high-visibility and reflective apparel, like vests, jackets, bib/jumpsuit coveralls, trousers and harnesses. If a garment meets this standard, it can be worn at any point in a 24-hour day and allow its users to be seen by fluorescent and retroreflective materials. Many of our hi vis yellow fabrics—DH, DH Air™, Polartec® FR and UltraSoft®—are certified to ANSI 107. Contact your regional market manager for additional information.

CSA Z96

CSA Z96 specifies performance requirements for color, retroreflection, and minimum areas as well as the configuration of materials of high-visibility safety apparel intended to provide the wearer with increased conspicuity under both well-illuminated or low-light/dark work environmental conditions. According to this standard, certified apparel should be capable of signaling the user’s presence visually. This standard is in technical harmony with the US standard, ANSI 107, therefore many Westex fabrics that are ANSI 107 certified are simultaneously CSA Z96 certified.

EN ISO 11612:2015

This international standard provides the minimum performance requirements for clothing to protect the wearers’ bodies (except for their hands) against heat and flame, which could be worn for a wide range of end uses where there is a need for clothing with limited flame spread properties. Additionally, the wearer could be exposed to radiant or convective or contact heat, or to molten metal splashes. Our DH, DH Air, Indura, Polartec FR, Synergy Pro, UltraSoft and Vinex fabrics meet requirements under this standard. Reach out to our international market manager to learn more.

IEC 61482-2:2018

This part of IEC 61482 specifies test method procedures to test materials and garments intended for use in heat and flame-resistant clothing for workers if there is an electric arc hazard. A directed and constrained electric arc in a test circuit is used to classify material and clothing in two defined arc protection classes. Our DH, DH Air, Polartec FR and UltraSoft fabrics meet Class 1 of this standard. Reach out to our international market manager to learn more.

NESC

The purpose of this code is the practical safeguarding of persons, utility facilities, and affected property during the installation, operation and maintenance of electric supply and communication facilities under specified conditions. NESC rules are founded on the fundamental principles used for safety of utility facilities and are accepted as good engineering practice; they are intended to provide a standard of safe practices that can be adopted by public utilities, state or local utility commissions or public service commissions, or other boards or bodies having control over safe practices employed in the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of electric supply, communication, street and area lighting, signal, or railroad utility facilities.

GB 12014-2019

This standard specifies the technical requirements, test methods, inspection rules, marking, etc., of electrostatic protective clothing used in places where electric shock, fire, and explosion may be caused by static electricity. The standard, however, does not apply to electrostatic protective clothing made with non-woven and high voltage electrostatic shielding clothing.

Many of our Synergy Pro and Optima DH fabrics distributed in Asia meet this standard. Reach out to our international market manager to learn more.

CAN/ULC-s801-14

CAN/ULC-s801-14 is meant to provide safety performance requirements for electric utilities, workers and employers who are involved on or near electric generation, transmission and distribution systems. It applies to the construction, operation, maintenance and replacement of electric utility systems used to generate, transform, transmit, distribute or deliver electrical power or energy or consumer services or their equivalent.