In a single phone call a procurement manager at a mid-sized refinery recently asked us the same question in three different forms: Which fabric offers better protection? Which endures daily use? And which won’t exceed the budget when placing an order for 500 units. The question of whether to choose a modacrylic IFR coverall or
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A welder welding overhead on a pipe rack has to cover his legs, whereas a welder sitting at a bench and using a TIG torch on thin sheet metal only needs sleeves that go past the elbow. If you buy the wrong type of clothing for either job, you will either spend too much on
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A procurement officer working for one of the contractors at Ras Laffan once sent us a sample of coveralls and included the following question: does it really meet the required specifications or does it merely have ‘Nomex’ printed on the label? That question is at the heart of every Nomex coverall purchase order in Qatar.
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One procurement manager, while organizing a turnaround team for an Al-Ahmadi site, described a time when a consignment of 300 coveralls failed a gate inspection. The garments appeared satisfactory since the color was correct, the size was appropriate, and the material felt heavy enough to be flame resistant. In fact, it wasn’t. The supplier had
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An electrician who was responsible for maintenance at a refinery on the Gulf Coast once said to a safety auditor that his team kept two suits in the locker: everybody took the 40-cal suit by default, while no one wanted to wear the 100-cal suit since it made what should have been a ten-minute panel
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A maintenance supervisor at a refinery in Jubail once said that his team used eleven sets of FR cotton coveralls over a period of fourteen months. The reason was not that the material caught fire but that the flame resistance gradually ceased to function after a large number of washings, and nobody realized it until
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A procurement manager in Doha had once told a supplier to accept the “flame resistant” statement as true. However, three months later, customs prevented the shipment from being released since the certificate on record did not match the actual fabric present in the boxes. That one discrepancy in the documentation resulted in a delay in
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A procurement manager working at a mid-size fabrication plant once put to us a straightforward question: the purchase order she had issued stated “boiler suit,” her site supervisor always referred to the same item as a “coverall,” and the vendor’s quote used both terms for the same line item. No one was incorrect, but no
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A worker at a substation is given a suit rated at 12 cal/cm². The panel that he is going to open has an incident energy of 27 cal/cm², and the figure had not been verified against the label before the work began. It is actually the gap, not the arc, that leads to most arc
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A procurement manager from Jubail told us that her team had lost six weeks and a container of coveralls because no one had checked the fabric lot number on the pre-production sample against that on the bulk shipment; the garments appeared to be the same,, but the lab report was inconsistent. That one step being
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