How Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers Ensure Safety Compliance
In the safety industry, professionals design specialized equipment to ensure that protective gear like helmets and suits keep us safe. Research shows that well-designed garments can increase the effectiveness of safety gear by up to 20%.
Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers use robust engineering design methods to design advanced and innovative test equipment that tests the protective gear to the latest standards. This ensures that the gear meets the highest safety standards and regulations.
In this article, we will explore the essential role that Protective Garment Testing Equipment designers in making sure that it meets safety compliance standards and guiding the selection of the right products for the right application.
The Role Of Designers In Making Sure Your Protective Gear Meets Safety Standards
The role that Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers play by facilitating safety standard compliance and product selection is not insignificant. According to a study by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 82% of work injuries could be avoided with proper safety gear.
The Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers need to stay up-to-date on the latest industry standards and guidelines to guarantee that the equipment they design will provide adequate protection to users. One of the primary responsibilities of a designer is to apply thorough design process methods to ensure that their designs meet the design criteria. For test system designs, not only does this mean that the system must physically function while operating under all operational conditions, but it must also produce accurate, verifiable test outputs. Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers face, therefore, a double-barrelled technical challenge in executing their projects.
It is essential that the test equipment they design produce reliable results under all the test conditions intended so that the protective gear being tested can be reliably tested and certified before it is used for the real-world task it is intended for. Therefore Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers must have an appreciation for the real-world environment that the items their equipment is testing will face.
Apart from guaranteeing compliance with safety regulations, Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers focus on creating test equipment for protective gear that is both ergonomic and easy to use. Therefore their equipment may be required to test parameters related to improvement of user experience, such as comfort, fit, and ease of movement.
In the case of the TOM manikin that SEA Engineering produced. This involved fitting the manikin with, not only skin temperature sensors, but heat flow transducers, and providing an output that could be coupled with human comfort simulation software programmed with empirical human comfort data. The result was a manikin output by which the manikin reported whether it was “comfortable” or not on a scale of 1 to 9, 5 being neutral.
Partnering with experts in human comfort physiology, expert electronics designers, and copper thermoformers, the Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers at SEA Engineering Co. Inc. produced highly innovative manikins for use in the design of automotive heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
Designers who possess extensive knowledge of materials are very important. As stated by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), it is essential to use durable and long-lasting materials.
They found that 70% of workplace injuries happen when head, eye, or face protection is not adequate. This emphasizes the importance of Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers selecting the right materials for the test systems that test the protective gear that keeps people safe.
How To Select The Right Protective Garment
A critical factor in ensuring the safety of the wearer of a protective garment is selection of the right garment. In the case of cold ocean survival suits, it is more than an issue of safety. It is an issue of survival. For the human body, death is imminent when the core temperature drops below 34 centigrade. This is the temperature approached within 5 to 10 minutes of immersion in the ocean in cold latitudes. Therefore, it is imperative that survival suits worn by personnel at risk of accidental immersion be rated at insulation values that provide survival times equal to or greater than probable rescue times. This is why the test equipment designed by The Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers must provide users of these protective garments with the means to evaluate them against the take into consideration the specific hazards they will be exposed to. Ultimately, it is the test equipment that will evaluate the choice of materials and effectiveness of the garment designs in providing adequate protection.
Multiple factors should be considered in choosing protective clothing and they will vary depending on the type of clothing being considered. For cold ocean survival suits the major consideration is the insulation level of the suit that provides an adequate in-water survival time. This critical parameter is what is evaluated by the test equipment designed by experienced Protective Garment Testing Equipment Designers like SEA Engineering Co. Inc. Other factors will be important for other garment types, but the common denominator is the need for properly designed testing equipment that can evaluate those factors.
Final Thoughts
The designers who design protective gear play a major role in ensuring its efficacy. One company that is excellent at designing these types of products is S.E.A. Engineering Co Inc.
Our expertise lies in creating innovative and effective product development and engineering solutions which we offer to companies across the globe.
Not only have we designed Protective Garment Testing Equipment, but we have also designed Underwater Breathing Apparatus, Underwater Breathing Apparatus Test Systems, Water Purification Systems, and Refrigeration Cycle Test Systems.
This is a wide array of specialized projects, but they have one thing in common and that is the practice of the fundamentals of engineering design which underlies all engineering projects. This is why, even if your project is different from any we have done before, we will be able to apply those engineering fundamentals to bring it to a successful conclusion.
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