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Other Fire Resistant Clothing not shown is available upon request .
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Special Information regarding non-FR Embroidery
on Fire Resistant Clothing |
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Whether it is appropriate to attach non‐FR embroidery
and emblems to flame resistant protective garments is
always a difficult question to address. The only comment
of the consensus standards writing organizations, such
as NFPA and ASTM, is that nothing on an article of
clothing may increase the extent of wearer injury in
case of garment ignition. ASTM in Standard F‐1506,
Standard Performance Specification for Flame Resistant
Textile Materials for Wearing Apparel for Use by
Electrical Workers Exposed to Momentary Electric Arc and
Related Thermal Hazards states in an appendix item that,
"Logos, name tags, and other heraldry should be limited
in number and surface area".
No OSHA or military standards address this area. SFI, the race driver's association, has not addressed this issue. However, identification and personalization are clearly safety issues in themselves that must be addressed by end users. In the final analysis, the end user of the garment must weigh the benefits of identification and personalization against the potential risk from using non‐flame resistant materials. Common sense in the size, placement, and number of these materials is the best solution. |