Protect Your People™
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Lakeland’s garments and products are not suitable for use in all situ-
ations and environments with all chemical and hazardous materials.
All decisions regarding the choice and usage of chemical protective
clothing must be done by trained and qualied safety professionals
in accordance with all OSHA and EPA Rules and regulations. Failure
to follow such regulations absolves Lakeland Industries, Inc. from all
liability. It is the user’s responsibility to determine the level of exposure
and the proper personal protective equipment needed. It is the em-
ployer’s LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY to provide PROPER protective clothing
to employees, and provide adequate care, use and maintenance of
these garments as only your employer knows the conditions under
which the wearer works. Lakeland has no such knowledge, so ask your
employer.
Lakeland protective garments will burn except where our garments
are specically advertised as re resistant. These garments should not
be worn around heat, open ames, sparks or any other possible igni-
tion source nor in potentially explosive or ammable environments.
If the Lakeland protective garment or product is abraded, cut, torn,
punctured or otherwise and in any way breached, do not use. The pro-
tective garment material has nite resistance to abrasion, cut, tear and
puncture. It is the responsibility of the employer and wearer to inspect
Lakeland garments prior to use to insure the integrity of the products,
garments and components.
If the Lakeland protective product or garment is damaged during use,
retreat immediately to a safe environment, thoroughly decontaminate
the garment, then dispose of it in a safe manner.
Limitations of Use
Lakeland protective garments are not intended for protection against
radiological hazards.
If the danger of exposure to biological aerosols or chemical warfare
chemicals exists, the use of a protective ensemble certied to the op-
tional Chemical and Biological Terrorism requirements of NFPA 1991
(2005 Edition) or garments certied to Class 2 of NFPA 1994 should
be considered. Each of these standards provides dierent levels of
performance.
Chemical Permeation Data
Before using a protective ensemble in a chemical situation, consult the
chemical permeation data appropriate to the garment material. Note
that seams, visors and closures will generally have lower or dierent
permeation times than the garments’ material. This information is to
be used as a guide only. The permeation performance of any material
depends on a number of factors including chemical concentration,
temperature, time and amount of exposure. Due to the large number
of variables, it is impossible for all ensemble materials to be tested
against all elements, chemicals, all combinations or mixtures thereof,
and all temperatures at which the element or chemical might be
encountered.
Chemical permeation tests are performed under laboratory condi-
tions -- not actual workplace conditions. They address chemical break-
through characteristics and do not account for physical performance
characteristics that aect a barrier such as abrasion, ex fatigue,
puncture, tear, oxidative degradation, or degraded performance due
to previous use contaminations.
No single protective material will protect against all chemicals for
all situations. The best course of action is to test the primary protec-
tive garment materials against the specic chemical hazard, at the
temperature and in the concentrations to be encountered. Lakeland
Industries, Inc. will provide free swatches of primary garment materials
for testing and can provide you with a list of testing facilities.
Never Use Pure Oxygen
The use of 100% oxygen with these garments presents serious re
safety and health hazards. Use only properly functioning breathing
quality, compressed air or air line supplied breathing air.
Wearing garments made of re retardant cottons, aramids or mod-
acrylics under or over Lakeland light non-woven, ChemMax® or
Interceptor® Plus garments will not reduce burn injury during a ash
re. Our products and garments will burn and possibly melt when
exposed to ash re; this is likely to increase burn injuries even when
worn over ame resistant fabrics. This is also true of Lakeland Micro-
Max® NS, MicroMax® NS Cool Suit, MIcroMax®, SafeGard®, SafeGard®
Economy SMS, ZoneGard®, ChemMax®, Interceptor® Plus and other
Lakeland light non-woven fabric lines. However, Pyrolon® fabrics and
garments are intended to be worn over re retardant cottons, aramids
and modacrylics.
Therefore users of any of these ammable garments should not enter
an environment in which the concentration of ammable gas (such
as paint fumes, hydrocarbon fumes or pure oxygen) has reached a
concentration which is within ammable, ignitable or explosive limits,
causing a re or ash re.
Simply stated, if there is a ash re, nothing will protect you from
severe burns or death. Therefore, it is the user’s responsibility to think
before working in even a potential ammable gaseous atmosphere.
Lakeland’s light non-woven fabrics, ChemMax® and Interceptor® Plus
line, are not intended for re ghting activities, nor for protection from
hot liquids, steam, molten metals, welding, electrical arc or thermal
radiation. USE COMMON SENSE! DO NOT SMOKE, OR USE ELECTRI-
CAL MACHINERY, AND INSURE USE OF PROPER BONDING AND
GROUNDING where ammable gas, liquids or solids exist. Anti-static
treatments and coatings are not adequate for all environmental
conditions. Static electricity in non-humid or winter environments can
cause a deadly ash re where ammables are present in the work-
place. Lakeland’s garments are intended to help reduce the potential
for injury, but no protective apparel alone can eliminate all risk of
injury. When dealing with re, heat, or ames, look to Lakeland’s FIRE
RESISTANT/RETARDANT APPAREL LINES.
Wear and Use Considerations
Manage and Prevent Heat Stress
This garment interferes with the natural regulation of body tempera-
ture. This can lead to a rise in core body temperature and heat stress.
The wearer should be aware of the symptoms and treatment of heat
stress. The wearer can take several steps to limit and/or prevent heat
stress, such as the use of a cooling system, and implementing a con-
servative work/rest schedule.
The maximum time the garment can be worn depends on such vari-
ables as the air supply, ambient condition, climate inside the garment,
physical and psychological condition of the wearer, work rate and
work load. The TLVTM pocket guide from the American Conference
of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH, Cincinnati) provides
corrected heat stress limits for totally encapsulated garments. Similar
information is available on the federal OSHA web site ( www.OSHA.
Warnings and Limitations
