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BS EN 343:2019

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Protective clothing. Protection against rain

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BSI 2019 22
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This European Standard specifies requirements and test methods applicable to ready-made garments, materials and seams of protective clothing against the influence of precipitation (e.g. rain, snowflakes), fog and ground humidity.

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2 undefined
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
8 3 Terms and definitions
9 4 Performance assessment and requirements
4.1 General requirements and innocuousness
4.1.1 General requirements
4.1.2 Innocuousness
4.2 Resistance to water penetration, WP
10 4.3 Water vapour resistance,
4.4 Tensile strength of the woven outer shell material
4.5 Tear resistance of the woven outer shell material
4.6 Bursting strength of the knitted outer shell material
11 4.7 Dimensional change of the protective clothing
4.8 Seam strength of the outer shell material
4.9 Waterproofness of a readymade garment (optional)
5 Pretreatment
5.1 General
5.2 Pretreatment by cleaning
5.3 Pretreatment by abrasion
12 5.4 Pretreatment by repeated flexing
5.5 Pretreatment with fuel and oil
13 6 Test methods
6.1 Sampling
6.2 General requirements and innocuousness
6.2.1 General requirements
6.2.2 Innocuousness
6.3 Water penetration, WP
6.4 Water vapour resistance, Ret
6.5 Tensile strength
6.6 Tear resistance
6.7 Bursting strength
6.8 Dimensional change after cleaning
14 6.9 Testing of seam strength
6.10 Testing the waterproofness of a readymade garment (optional)
6.11 Ageing
6.11.1 General
6.11.2 Cleaning of readymade garments
7 Size designation
8 Marking and care labelling
15 9 Information supplied by the manufacturer
16 Annex A (informative)Recommendations for wearing time
17 Annex B (informative)Test device for one sided exposure to fuel and oil
18 Annex C (informative)Significant changes between this document and the previous edition
19 Annex ZA (informative)Relationship between this European Standard and the essential requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment aimed to be covered
BS EN 343:2019
$102.76