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Femsa NFPA 1951 User's Information Manual

Protective garments for urban search and rescue operations
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FEMSA
O
FFiciAl
U
SEr
i
nFOrMAtiOn
G
UidE
! DANGER
• Do not use your Protective Garment
until you have read and understood all
labels on your Protective Elements and
this Official User Information Guide.
• Only end user shall separate this guide
from the element. Remove guide from
the element prior to using the element
for emergency operations.
Fire and Emergency Manufacturers
and Services Association, Inc.
www.femsa.org
2010
12/17/10 11:43 AM

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  • Page 1 FEMSA FFiciAl nFOrMAtiOn UidE ! DANGER • Do not use your Protective Garment until you have read and understood all labels on your Protective Elements and this Official User Information Guide. • Only end user shall separate this guide from the element. Remove guide from the element prior to using the element for emergency operations. Fire and Emergency Manufacturers and Services Association, Inc. www.femsa.org 2010 Untitled-1 1 12/17/10 11:43 AM...
  • Page 2 Read this guide and all labels before using your protective ensemble. Review this guide on a regular basis. FEMSA acknowledges with thanks the input of the fire service in developing, reviewing and refining this work (especially the fine work of CAFER, NAFER, SAFER &...
  • Page 3 FEMSA Official User Information Guide Protective Garments for Urban Search and Rescue Operations Untitled-1 3 12/17/10 11:43 AM...
  • Page 4 Conductive heat ....................2-1 Convective heat ....................2-1 Elements ....................... 2-1 Emergency Medical Operations ................2-1 Entry Fire Fighting ....................2-1 FEMSA ........................ 2-2 FIERO ........................2-2 Footwear ......................2-2 Garments ....................... 2-2 Gloves ........................2-2 Hazardous chemical ....................2-2 Heat ........................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1: Introduction

    Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction USAR operations are an ultrahazardous, unavoidably dangerous activity. To reduce your risk of death, burns, injuries, diseases and illnesses, you must carefully read and strictly follow this entire Official User Information Guide and all labels on your protective ensemble.

  • Page 6: Chapter 2: Signal Words And Definitions

    Certain terms used in the Guide may be unfamiliar. This Guide has made an attempt to be consistent with NFPA and OSHA definitions. Please refer to NFPA 1951 for additional definitions. Alarm Time: Alarm time: This is the time between feeling heat (“alarm”) and the onset of a second degree burn. Feeling pain or heat on your skin does not necessarily mean that you are burned.
  • Page 7 Usually these operations are exterior operations. Entry fire fighting is not structural fire fighting. FEMSA: Fire and Emergency Manufacturers and Services Association, Inc., Lynnfield, MA. Telephone: 781-334-2771. FIERO: Fire Industry Equipment Research Organization, Acworth, GA. Telephone: 404-974-1152.

  • Page 8: Chapter 3: Intended Use Of Protective Ensemble Elements

    Intended Use of Protective Ensemble Elements Chapter 3: Intended Use of Protective Ensemble Elements The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor places the responsibility for selection, approval, maintenance, inspection and training in the proper use and limitations of safety gear on your fire department or employer.

  • Page 9: Chapter 4: Specific Safety Considerations

    Specific Safety Considerations Chapter 4: Specific Safety Considerations This entire Guide deals with issues that directly affect your life and safety. Even such matters as how you clean, store and maintain your protective ensemble element, how you put it on and take it off and how well it fits, directly impact your life, safety and well-being.
  • Page 10 Specific Safety Considerations Your protective ensemble is not intended for protection during fire fighting or for any emergency where the possibility of exposures to sustained fire or high heat exists. Even for limited exposures, such as accidental hydrocarbon flash fire, your protective ensemble will not protect you from all burns and injuries.
  • Page 11 Specific Safety Considerations time or a low level of radiant heat for a long enough period of time that you may be burned with no compression of the protective ensemble. Depending on conditions, you may not feel the heat build-up in and/or pass through your protective ensemble, before you are burned.
  • Page 12 Specific Safety Considerations Even the best protective ensemble cannot protect you completely from chemical, radiological and biological hazards. Protective ensemble elements can reduce - but not eliminate - your risk of death, diseases and illnesses due to these hazards. There are numerous federal, state and local environmental regulations and health codes on how to deal with these hazards. This Guide does not address all of these hazards or how to protect yourself from them.
  • Page 13 Specific Safety Considerations DANGER If you feel heat or some slight discomfort or unusual sensation under your protective ensemble, you may already have been burned or are about to be burned. Be constantly alert to the possibility of exposure to heat and other hazards! If you do feel heat under your protective ensemble, you may still have time to escape injury.
  • Page 14 Specific Safety Considerations DANGER Your protective ensemble must fit properly and interface with your other safety equipment so that the protective layers overlap in all body positions. Any gaps in your protective layers may result in death, injuries, diseases, illnesses or burns! Sizing, fit and adjustment Before each use of your protective ensemble, make sure that it is sized, fits and adjusted properly.
  • Page 15 Any garment showing signs of damage, weakening or degradation of any protective quality required in NFPA 1951 should not be used. •...

  • Page 16: Chapter 5: Donning And Doffing Your Protective Garments

    Donning and Doffing Your Protective Garments Chapter 5: Donning and Doffing Your Protective Garments ! WARNING How you don and doff your protective garments will affect your life and safety. You must wear the protective ensemble properly in order for it to reduce your risk of death, burns, injury, illness and disease.
  • Page 17 Donning and Doffing Your Protective Garments Contaminated protective garments Protective ensembles contaminated with blood, bodily fluids, toxins, radioactivity, chemicals and hazardous materials. ! WARNING Avoid unprotected bodily contact with contaminated areas of your protective garments. Avoid contact between contaminated protective garments and your personal belongs, your living quarters and/or interior spaces in building and vehicles.

  • Page 18: Chapter 6: Cleaning Your Protective Garments

    Cleaning Your Protective Garments Chapter 6: Cleaning Your Protective Garments ! WARNING You must keep your protective garments clean. If you do not keep your protective garments clean, you will increase your risk of death, burns, injuries, diseases and illnesses! Some emergency responders prefer the appearance of well-used, discolored, “salty”...

  • Page 19: Machine Cleaning

    Cleaning Your Protective Garments The waste water from the utility sink must be handled according to federal, state and local law. You must avoid the use of chlorine bleach, water temperatures greater than 110º F, heavy abrasion and/or scrubbing, water and/or cleaning solutions with a pH greater than 10.5, mixing flame resistant and non-flame resistant items in the utility sink.

  • Page 20: Chapter 7: Maintenance And Repairs

    Maintenance and Repairs Chapter 7: Maintenance and Repairs Before and after every emergency operation use, equipment should be inspected. Maintenance should be performed as needed on worn areas, tears, missing stitches on all layers, hardware detachment, changes in coloration, etc. Any loose stitches, any ripped areas, any detached trim or loose pockets should be repaired before the garment’s next use.

  • Page 21: Record Keeping

    Maintenance and Repairs Record Keeping For each piece of the protective ensemble, the following records should be kept: Date put into service, date cleaned, date out of service, date returned to service, days out of service, ID of the item of element, age of the element, who cleaned the element, type of cleaning performed, type of repairs performed, who performed the repairs.

  • Page 22: Chapter 8: Warranty Information

    Warranty Information Chapter 8: Warranty Information Your protective ensemble is warranted by the manufacturer to be free from defects in material or workmanship. This warranty does not cover normal wear or unusual exposures. This warranty is in lieu of all other warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of marketability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.
  • Page 23 6. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in death, burns or other severe injury. © 2010 FEMSA, All Rights Reserved, Fire and Emergency Manufacturers and Services Association, Inc. www.femsa.org Untitled-1 23...
  • Page 24 Information” in the FEMSA OFFICIAL USER INFORMATION GUIDE. • If you do not have A FEMSA OFFICIAL USER INFORMATION GUIDE, contact the manufacturer. DO NOT REMOVE THIS LABEL © 1996 (Guide Reprinted 2010) Fire and Emergency Manufacturers and Services Association, Inc.

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