"Standard on Surface Water Operations Protective Clothing and Equipment"

This standard shall specify the minimum design, performance, testing, and certification requirements for protective clothing and equipment items, including full body suits, helmets, gloves, footwear, and personal flotation devices designed to provide limited protection from physical, environmental, thermal, and certain common chemical and biological hazards for emergency services personnel during surface water operations.

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, system, or service: Examples of specifications include, but are not limited to, requirements for; physical, mechanical, or chemical properties, and safety, quality, or performance criteria. A specification identifies the test methods for determining whether each of the requirements is satisfied.

A definitive procedure that produces a test result: Examples of test methods include, but are not limited to: identification, measurement, and evaluation of one or more qualities, characteristics, or properties. A precision and bias statement shall be reported at the end of a test method.

All items of clothing and/or accessories (whether or not detachable) designed and manufactured to provide specific protection. This includes bullet-proof clothing, general protective clothing and full body ensembles that protect from cuts, radiation, temperature extremes, hot splashes from molten metals and other hot liquids, potential impacts from tools, machinery and materials and hazardous chemicals. Examples of body protection include laboratory coats, coveralls, vests, jackets, aprons, surgical gowns and full body suits

• Environmental protective clothing

• Physical
• Environmental

• Chemical

• Temperature

• Biological

• 29-2000 Health Technologists and Technicians
  • 29-2041 Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics

• 33-2000 Fire Fighting and Prevention Workers
  • 33-2010 Firefighters

NFPA 1951 - 2020 edition(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/NFPA19512020edition) - Standard on protective ensembles for technical rescue incidents

ASTM F2010 / F2010M - 18(2023)(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF2010/F2010M18(2023)) - Standard Test Method for Evaluation of Glove Effects on Wearer Finger Dexterity Using a Modified Pegboard Test

ASTM F1446 - 20(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF144620) - Standard test methods for equipment and procedures used in evaluating the performance characteristics of protective headgear

ASTM F1001 - 12(2017)(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF100112(2017)) - Standard Guide for Selection of Chemicals to Evaluate Protective Clothing Materials

ASTM F1342 / F1342M - 05(2022)(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF1342/F1342M05(2022)) - Standard test method for protective clothing material resistance to puncture

ASTM F1359 / F1359M - 22(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF1359/F1359M22) - Standard Test Method for Liquid Penetration Resistance of Protective Clothing or Protective Ensembles Under a Shower Spray While on a Mannequin

ASTM F1671 / F1671M - 22(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF1671/F1671M22) - Standard Test Method for Resistance of Materials Used in Protective Clothing to Penetration by Blood-Borne Pathogens Using Phi-X174 Bacteriophage Penetration as a Test System

ASTM F1790 / F1790M - 15 (Reapproved 2021)(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF1790/F1790M15(Reapproved2021)) - Standard Test Method for Measuring Cut Resistance of Materials Used in Protective Clothing

ASTM F1868 - 23(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ASTMF186823) - Standard Test Method for Thermal, Evaporative Resistance and Total Heat Loss Measurements of Clothing Materials Using a Sweating Hot Plate

UL 1197(https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/UL1197) - Immersion suits