Research on the performance test standards for heat protective clothing of foreign countries and organizations

Heat protective clothing is the main protective equipment of human safety in thermal environment.The relevant technical standards which are scientific and systematic play an important role to protect human beings in heat environment.Therefore,they have been paid adequate attention in developed countries.High level standards have been developed systematically,which focus on the performance test technique,and some new tendencies are reflected.In this paper,the common content of the technical standards of foreign heat protective clothing were illustrated firstly.It included the methods of performance test,the main equipment of experiment,the procedure of performance test experiment,the assessment of burn injury,the application of human manikin and the content of test report.And then the tendency was analyzed through the research of those standards.More attention would be paid on the performance test of the whole heat protective ensemble and the application of sweating thermal manikin would be used widely.At last some suggestions which were helpful for our research of the technical standards of heat protective clothing performance test were proposed.