fire resistant clothing

There are a lot of fire-resistant fabrics are available today and we can make things such as clothing, workwear clothing, curtains, furniture covers, window shades, bedding, towels, headwear and many more out of those. Wearing fire resistant clothing has become very important, especially in low, medium and high-risk locations.

A high-risk location could be, detention centres, prison, or an oil rig. A medium-risk could be a nursing home, a psychiatric hospital. Movie theatres and churches are considered as low-risk places. Your workplace's safety specialist has a better idea of the risk factor in your workplace. According to them, your company will provide workers with basic safety clothes. Apart from these, fire-resistant clothes help you to avoid heat and cold-related illness.

You must have an idea about fire-resistant fabrics so that you can choose easily. Nomex and modacrylic are the best kinds of fabric used for making fire-resistant clothes other than that, there are a few which are also known as fire-resistant fabrics.

Fire-resistant fabrics are designed based on the time it generally takes for the fabric to burn where you can actually differentiate. Let's have a look at the popular fire-resistant fabrics
  • Wool: Being the most fire-resistant natural fibre, wool is not at all easy flammable. There are a lot of natural fibres available in the market such as cotton, silk, wool, which are generally more vulnerable to fire than the other manufactured fabrics. Manufacturers are mixing up a chemical solution with the natural fabric in order to make them fire-resistant. Though you must remember one thing that, no fabric is fireproof.
  • Acrylic, Polyester, Nylon: These fabrics are undoubtedly flammable when exposed to fire. These melt and can be the cause of burning skin if you're wearing any of these fabrics and exposed to flame. But, the manufacturers have said that in spite of having a high chance of danger these synthetic fabrics are still considered as fire-resistant clothing. And synthetic fabrics can be treated with chemicals to increase the ability to resist fire.
  • Kevlar And Nomex: The most popular fabrics for being the strong and heat resistant at it's best. These are the most common fabrics used by many industrial workers. These fabrics are well known for its use in bulletproof vests and body armour worn by the members of law enforcement. If you're working in a place which has high-risk, then even you can totally rely on this fabric because of the intrinsic nature of fire-resistant. Apart from that, these fabrics can be used for making heatproof gloves for welders and protective clothing and glass blowers for firefighters.
Previously, only firefighters used to wear these types of clothes to get protection from any sort of flame and fire. Those clothes were heavy, bulky and not at all comfortable. But nowadays, manufacturers are making fire-resistant clothing which is very much similar to your regular clothing and you can have a hassle-free working experience all day long wearing these.

Your regular clothing is usually exposed to fire, so it catches fire or flame at an unimaginable speedy rate and gives almost no time to escape. If your workplace has a high risk regarding fire, wearing regular fabric could be very dangerous. But if you're wearing fire-resistant clothes and exposed to fire, it takes a lot of time to ignite and gives you a decent amount of time to escape because it is nothing but a thing.

Conclusion: Flame retardant clothes generally push away oxygen starving the flame, it never fuels the fire which has already been ignited. Apart from that, they also become cool in just a few minutes and the benefits they provide are commendable.