ISO 16073-8:2019 ワイルドランド消防用個人用保護具—要件と試験方法—パート8：ヒアリング | ページ 2

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC94, Personal safety — Protective equipment, Subcommittee SC14, Firefighters personal equipment.

This first edition of ISO 16073-8, together with ISO 16073-1 to ISO 16073-7, cancels and replaces ISO 16073:2011.

The main changes are as follows:

• the content has been reviewed and separated into several parts;
• the respiratory protection has been deleted from the document.

A list of all parts in the ISO 16073 series can be found on the ISO website.

Introduction

Wildland firefighting involves work carried out mostly in summer temperatures and for many hours, during which the firefighter can develop high levels of metabolic heat. As a consequence, the personal protective equipment (PPE) is required to be light, flexible and commensurate with the risks to which the firefighter can be exposed in order to be effective without introducing excessive heat stress to the wearer.

It is important to train firefighters in the selection, use, care and maintenance of the PPE covered by this document, including an understanding of its limitations.

It is intended that a risk assessment be undertaken to determine if the PPE covered by this document is suitable for its intended use and the expected exposure.

This document provides minimum performance requirements for wildland firefighters' personal protective equipment hearing protection, designed for use for extended periods during wildland firefighting.

1 Scope

This document specifies the minimum performance requirements and methods of test for hearing protection used when wildland firefighting.

This document covers the general design of the personal protective equipment (PPE), the minimum levels of performance for the materials employed and the methods of test used. The PPE is not intended to provide protection during fire entrapment.

This document does not cover PPE for structural firefighting (see ISO 11999 series), for use against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards, or for use where a reflective outer surface is required (see ISO 15538).

Activities in support of wildland firefighting, such as the cutting of trees and the use of a chainsaw can require additional protection to that provided in this document. Users are directed to those relevant standards for the requirements associated with such protection.

2 Normative references

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/TR 19591 apply.

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