"Protective clothing for firefighter's who are engaged in support activities associated with structural fire fighting — Laboratory test methods and performance"

This document specifies test methods and minimum performance requirements for protective clothing used by firefighters who are engaged in support activities of firefighting. This clothing is not intended for interior attack firefighting. These support activities of firefighting are defined (see 3.8.2) as activities such as:— water and material supply;— extinguishing fires from the outside of the structure;— prevention of exterior spreading to adjacencies, preventing enviromental damage and limiting effect of smoke;— securing traffic and environment;— first aid base activities;— preparing the fire ground for subsequent activities;— RPD replenishment tasks;— assessment zone;— BA communication;— forward command post;— evacuation;— assist planning;— assist logistics;— assist communication;— transportation.

This document covers the general clothing design, the minimum performance levels of the materials used, and the methods of test for determining these performance levels.

This document is not equivalent to ISO 11999-3, clothing worn by firefighters who are at risk of exposure to high levels of heat and/or flame while fighting fires occurring in structures. This document provides lower minimum level of protection.

Selection of the appropriate system of clothing is dependent on carrying out an effective risk assessment which identifies the hazards to be faced, evaluates the likelihood of those hazards, and provides the means to reduce or eliminate these hazards. Details of one example of a recommended risk assessment approach and some factors for consideration are included in Annex A.

This document does not cover special clothing for use in other high risk situations such as specialized firefighting, or clothing for use in long term firefighting operations in high ambient temperature, for example bush, wildland, or forest firefighting where clothing according to ISO 15384 could be more appropriate. It does not cover clothing for use in high-risk fire exposures, for example reflective protective clothing according to ISO 15538 could be more appropriate.

It does not cover protection for the head, hands and feet or protection against other hazards, for example chemical, biological, radiation and electrical hazards. These aspects can be dealt with in other standards.

"Components for containment enclosures - Part 2: gloves, welded bags, gaiters for remote-handling tongs and for manipulators"

This part of ISO 11933 specifies requirements for the selection, construction and use of the following leak tight components fitted on glove/bag ports and/or ejectable support rings used in containment enclosures and dealt with in ISO 11933-1: gloves, welded bags, gaiters for remote-handling tongs, manipulator gaiters. Tong and manipulator gaiters are respectively the protection sleeves for remote-handling tongs and mechanical master-slave manipulators. Equipment which differs from those listed in this part of ISO 11933 can be used, but their design criteria should respect those given in this document.

"Clothing for protection against heat and flame -- Determination of contact heat transmission through protective clothing or constituent materials -- Part 2: Test method using contact heat produced by dropping small cylinders"

ISO 12127-2:2007 specifies a test method designed to evaluate the heat transfer and the behavior of materials used for protective clothing when such materials are struck by high temperature metal particles, especially when these are trapped in the folds of the garment in working situations. The results obtained by this method permit the comparison of the behavior of different materials which have undergone this test under standardized conditions. They do not permit conclusions to be drawn with respect to contacts with large splashes of molten cast iron or other metal, nor do they allow the behavior of complete garments under industrial conditions to be predicted.

"Protective clothing -- General requirements"

ISO 13688:2013 specifies general performance requirements for ergonomics, innocuousness, size designation, ageing, compatibility and marking of protective clothing and the information to be supplied by the manufacturer with the protective clothing. ISO 13688:2013 is only intended to be used in combination with other standards containing requirements for specific protective performance and not on a stand-alone basis.

"Protective clothing for use against solid particulates -- Part 2: Test method of determination of inward leakage of aerosols of fine particles into suits"

ISO 13982-2:2004 specifies a test method to determine the barrier efficiency of chemical protective clothing against aerosols of dry, fine dusts.