Personal Protective Equipment | Monthly bulletin | October 2019
Standards Updates
Below a summary table with some recent standards updates and upcoming dates of withdrawal (non-exhaustive):
(*) Date of withdrawal: latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn.
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Reference |
Title |
Date of Withdrawal (*) |
Supersedes |
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Mountaineering equipment - Crampons - Safety requirements and test methods |
2020-02-29 |
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Respiratory protective devices - Methods of test - Part 2: Practical performance tests |
2020-02-29 |
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Live working - Protective clothing against the thermal hazards of an electric arc - Part 1-1: Test methods - Method 1: Determination of the arc rating (ELIM, ATPV and/or EBT) of clothing materials and of protective clothing using an open arc |
2022-08-07 |
Standards Updates
Below a summary table with some recent ASTM standards updates:
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Reference |
Title |
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Standard Specification for Dielectric Footwear |
Below you will find a monthly summary of product recalls and alerts in Europe (Source “RAPEX”).
Europe
RAPEX (European Commission Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products – Alerts reported by EU national authorities).
The following 1 alerts regarding Personal Protective equipment have been reported, from week 34 until week 38 of 2019.
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Type of Risk |
Number of alerts |
Notes |
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Drowning |
1 |
Life jacket: it is not sufficiently resistant to fire and becomes damaged, losing its floating ability. Not complying with EN ISO 12402 |
