ISO 18639-6:2018 特定の救助活動を行う消防士のためのPPEアンサンブル—パート6：履物 | ページ 2

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 94, Personal safety — Protective clothing and equipment, Subcommittee SC 14, Fire-fighters' personal equipment.

A list of all the parts in the ISO 18639 series can be found on the ISO website.

Introduction

ISO 18639 is a series of standards for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for firefighters when engaged in specific rescue activities. It is not possible to provide a standard for PPE to cover all of the diverse range of rescue scenarios that firefighters are likely to encounter so it is important that risk assessments are undertaken to determine if the PPE covered by ISO 18639 is suitable for its intended use and the expected exposure to hazards. For complete protection against exposures, the risk assessment should include protection of the whole body including the torso, arms and legs, head, face, hands and feet.

For certain rescue activities, safety ropes and harnesses can be required. For certain rescue situations, special PPE for use in and on water can be required. In some cases, appropriate respiratory protection can also be identified as being necessary.

The performance requirements in this document take account of accidental exposure to heat and flame, but do not cover PPE for firefighting. While this document takes account of accidental exposure to some common chemicals, it is not intended that PPE to this document should be considered as providing chemical protection as a primary function. It does not cover PPE to protect against biological, electrical or radiation hazards. The risk assessment determines whether PPE complying to this document or the requirements of any other relevant standard is more suitable.

Firefighters should be trained in the use, care and maintenance of the PPE covered by this document, including an understanding of its limitations.

1 Scope

This document provides the principles that govern the development of incident type and/or hazard specific test methods and minimum performance requirements for safety footwear for firefighters while engaged in specific rescue activities.

Footwear related to specific rescue activities, e.g. Road Traffic Crash, (RTC) and Urban Search and Rescue, (USAR) is documented in individual subclauses of this document.

The purpose of this document is to ensure minimum performance requirements for incident type and/or hazard specific safety footwear are designated.

This document covers general footwear design, the minimum performance level of the materials used and the methods of test for determining this performance level.

It does not cover special footwear for use in other high risk situations such as structural firefighting.

This document does not cover protection for the head, torso, arms, hands and legs or protection of the feet against other hazards, e.g. chemical, biological, radiation and electrical hazards, except for limited, accidental exposure to fire ground chemicals and contaminated blood or body fluids.

Selection of the appropriate system of Personal Protective Equipment, (PPE), including footwear, is dependent on carrying out an effective risk assessment which identifies the hazard to be faced, evaluates the likelihood of those hazards and provides the means of reducing or eliminating these hazards.

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 18639-1 and ISO 20345 apply.

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