How Arc Will Harm The Human Body?

The main harmness of the arc to people including below:

1. Electrocution, when the workers get an electric shock directly, may result in electrocution death or serious burns, in fact, even the fire retardant protective clothing could not stop workers from the risk of electric shock killed;

2. The severe burns caused by clothes combustion, it is also possible that the worker will get hurt even though they do not contact the arc directly, due to the radiant heat produced by the arc can melt the tools and burn the normal clothing in a very short time. Such as the cotton or polyester clothes will ignite even no flame, once these clothes was ignited, the burning will continue and casue the fatal injuries to the wearer.

3. The burst of clothes causing severe burns, shock or explosion generated by arc will force clothes to be stretched and split, leaving the workers’ body directly exposed to heat, flame or molten metal (such as: molten metal tools and equipment etc.);

4. drip melting produced by synthetic underwear cause severe burns, even the coat has no combustion, the heat generated by the arc is sufficient to melt underwear made of synthetic material, as close to the skin underwear, will cause very serious and even fatal injuries to the wearers.

In foreign countries, many examples show that these workers will meet greater harmness if wearing normal clothing when working. In fact, more than half of the report to OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Committee) and arc-related injury cases, were caused by the combustion of the workwear.

Therefore, to assess the degree of risk under a particular work environment for workers and provide appropriate personal arc protective clothing has become a common safety standards in United States and Europe . The personal protective clothing which can resist and balance the arc heat effect will provide more escape time and reduce the degree of burn injuries, thus improving the survival rate of accident victims.

The arc-proof fabric produced by xinxiang yulong textile co,. Ltd was made of cotton material, the ATPV value can reach class ii under the USA test method of ASTMF 1959. This fabric has very good flame retardant property and can meet the arc requirement of being the single layer protective clothing.