Safety equipment includes clothing, headgear, footwear, first aid materials, devices and tools. It’s not just for dangerous professions but also for everyday activities like cycling. Firefighters, search and rescue teams, construction workers, and Hazmat teams all use specialized safety equipment.
While to a layman the term safety equipment might appear to include some items that help with safety but not include others, which might be considered clothing, devices or tools, rather than equipment; for those responsible for the quality and standards of such equipment, it includes appropriate equipment, together with clothing, headgear, footwear, first aid materials, devices and tools. Furthermore, the layman might assume that this equipment is protective equipment for dangerous professions, when in fact, the bicycle helmet you or your child is wearing is considered safety equipment along with the items used by firefighters, material crews hazardous materials (hazardous materials) and by searchers and rescue personnel.
Safety equipment for firefighters includes boots, clothing, gloves and fire helmets. These are available in different designs, suitable for structural fires on the one hand and forest fires on the other, with special versions for proximity fire extinguishing. Vapor protection sets for fighting sudden chemical fires, as well as self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), not to be confused with self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), which is used not only by firefighters, but also by firefighters fire, industrial workers, specialists involved in decontamination and urban search and rescue. Personal Safety Warning Systems (PASS), which emit a distress signal if a firefighter becomes incapacitated, are another important safety tool.
Fall arresters of different types are made for people who normally work in elevated places, such as construction workers, power line workers, sometimes called linemen, and search and rescue personnel when needed. This includes vertical lifelines, full body harnesses and energy absorbing lanyards, as well as arc resistant versions of the same.
Ropes and lifelines are examples of safety equipment used by search and rescue teams, as well as tactical teams involved in security and police work or military operations, although they are also used by window cleaners. Depending on the situation, rescue teams may also use powered rescue tools, such as hydraulic shears, power units and spreaders. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers have protective clothing for emergency medical operations.
Hazmat teams carry a variety of specialized safety equipment, including liquid splash protective clothing and footwear, and other protective clothing, including chemical/biological terrorism protective clothing. Gas detector tubes, with or without a sampling pump, provide on-site analysis of possible hazardous materials in the air. The specialized versions are made especially for confined spaces, unpleasant odors and toxic atmospheres. Other safety equipment includes industrial head, foot and body protection, eye and face protection, emergency eyewash and shower, and smoke escape air purifying breathing devices, for example.
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