Flame-resistant clothing is used in a large number of professions including the fire service, research labs, electrical utilities (Figure 1), and oil and gas. Workers in all of these areas often ...

Synthetic gear is great for wicking sweat, but it also melts easily. Massif makes flame-resistant clothing that's the best of both worlds.

Most emergency preparedness checklists say to have hard-soled shoes to wear to protect your feet from embers or glass shattered by heat. Fire experts suggest wearing flame-resistant garments, from ...

The Navy is preparing to introduce yet another clothing item to the fleet — a two-piece flame retardant uniform that aims to be “a common sense alternative to coveralls,” according to a U.S ...

Carhartt's iconic A18 hat is now made flame-resistant stretchy rib knit that keeps out the cold. Carhartt Carhartt also has flame-resistant clothing.

FR clothing has become a hot commodity in the Bakken, where thousands of oil field workers are required to wear it on the job.

Flame-resistant (FR) clothing has come a long way from its origins in the lab of French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, who first discovered that ammonium phosphates and borax were capable of ...

Fabric might be the last thing on your mind when firefighters rescue someone from a burning building, but without fire-resistant clothing, such rescues might not happen at all. The turnout gear that ...

The new coveralls — known as the Improved Fire Retardant Variant — will be issued to sailors after the Navy runs out of the current version. There are about 21,000 of the original models left ...

The goal of the initiative is to provide a no-cost, safe, and comfortable organizational clothing option to the improved, flame-resistant variant (IFRV) coverall.

Designing the coveralls, she explained, required a more comprehensive analysis of the wearer’s body because they use a non-stretch, flame-retardant woven fabric with less flexibility.