How to make protective clothing inspection?
How to make protective clothing inspection?
Protective clothing is a wide range of clothing. Any clothing with a kind of protective purpose is a kind of protective clothing. Protective clothing is any clothing specifically designed, treated or fabricated to protect personnel from hazards that are caused by extreme environmental conditions, or a dangerous work environment. Some protective clothing may be designed to protect the workers from the working environment due to infection or pollution. Protective clothing or any protective equipment is often referred to as personal protective equipment (PPE). Therefore making protective clothing inspection is a part of PPE Quality control procedure.
To do it you should know what it is designed to use, and under what environment it is used. The most common protective clothing includes surgical gown, chemical protective suit, welding protective clothing…
This article focuses on the visual inspection for protective clothing inspection. Because protective clothing belongs to clothing category, all clothing criteria apply to protective clothing inspection, which involves below aspects.
Protective clothing inspection steps
- Clothing style: you should inspect the protective clothing style confirms to the patterns or the approved sample.
- Clothing materials: protective clothing could be categorized as disposable protective clothing and reusable protective clothing.
- Size measurement check: Any size measurement for apparels can be suitable for protective clothing inspection. But the tolerance for protective clothing can be suggested not to be as strict as apparel’s.
- Makes and workmanship: the seam performance is very important for any protective clothing.
- Checklist for protective clothing:
Packing is correct and sealed
If all markings and labelling is correct
The protective clothing is hygienic or not
All sems are secure and heat-sealed
If all parts are not missing
No broken, no puckering seam, no other cosmetic defects
