Westex by Milliken has always provided much more than high-performing FR fabric. For decades, we’ve taken a big picture approach to FR safety, and we have worked harder and gone further than any of our competitors to bring better products and meaningful change to the industry.
There’s a new acronym in the world of PPE and it has been causing confusion, both among folks new to the subject as well as those long familiar with FR (Flame Resistant) clothing.
Safety managers consider several factors when evaluating PPE clothing, such as protection, comfort, value and compliance. For many, knowing that fire-resistant clothing is compliant is enough — but after watching a flash fire demonstration in which several types of compliant FRCs were put to the test on manikins, some plan to reevaluate what their employees […]
Westex urged attendees of its April 30 and May 1 conference to give serious consideration to how they think about fire-resistant clothing. By providing a variety of speakers, including subject matter experts in burns and flash fire testing, as well as a burn survivor, the goal was to have attendees walk away understanding that mere […]
On a chilly September day in 1991, Brad Livingston was given an assignment to weld shut two pinhole leaks in a tank on a well in the Oklahoma panhandle. It was a routine job he and his senior welder had done many times before. And that was the problem…
The combustible dust hazard has gained a much higher national profile since the Imperial Sugar incident in 2008, which tragically killed 14 people and injured 36…
The safety and health hazards posed by combustible dusts such as, but not limited to organic and metal dusts are unique and extremely complex…
