How to properly disinfect chemical protective clothing

Chemical protective clothing is usually used in chemical, fire-fighting, metallurgy and other employee operations or in disaster relief environments. Kangxing Industrial Safety Protection Experts reminds: Chemical protective clothing must be disinfected and maintained after use to facilitate continued use next time. However, it must be noted that the disinfection of chemical protective clothing must be performed by qualified professional safety personnel, and the protective clothing must be disinfected immediately after use. Research has found that most companies that use chemical protective clothing have accidents due to improper handling of protective clothing after use, so how to disinfect and detoxify chemical protective clothing? Let's listen to what experts from Kangxing Industry have to say.

Disinfection is the process of removing or neutralizing contaminated chemicals on protective clothing by physical or chemical means. This process is also a critical step in ensuring the health and safety of workers. Due to improper disinfection methods, staff may be poisoned or re-contaminated during disinfection. Generally speaking, if it is known that the protective clothing is chemically contaminated, it must be disinfected immediately to avoid corrosion damage to the chemical protective clothing caused by the retention of poisons for a long time. Detoxification measures should be performed by qualified professional safety personnel, and detoxification should be carried out as soon as possible when chemical protective clothing comes into contact with chemicals. According to Kangxing Industry, there are generally three disinfection methods: physical methods to remove pollutants; alcohol disinfection or other toxic chemical methods to inactivate or poison pollutants; the above two methods are used in combination.

Standard non-destructive methods ensure that chemical protective clothing has been effectively detoxified. Because many fibers are adsorptive, chemical substances may remain in the fibers after detoxification, especially in dangerous chemical situations (level A), there may be unknown toxic or cancerous chemicals, the safest detoxification method is to discard protective clothing . Not recommended for all possible exposure to known or unknown toxic and carcinogenic chemicals.

After detoxification, the protective clothing can be washed by hand. Use warm water and a moderate cleaning agent. Appropriate protective clothing and equipment should be worn to prevent contact with residual pollutants. After cleaning, the chemical protective clothing should be rinsed with warm water. After cooling and drying, qualified health professionals must determine whether detoxification is complete before reuse.

Usually overall cleansing is done by washing and scrubbing. During this process, the dust, most inorganic substances and some organic substances on the surface of the protective clothing can be removed, but the infiltrated or penetrated pollutants cannot be removed. Therefore, it is easier to remove organic pollutants with organic solvents, but this will cause other problems. Organic solvents will penetrate into the protective clothing fabric; local pollution will spread with organic solvents; leaving a large and most toxic solution , it must be post-processed.

Another method of removing penetrating and penetrating pollutants is to fumigate with high-pressure hot air for a certain period of time, causing the pollutants to evaporate, but this method can only be used for volatile pollutants. Chemical protective clothing is widely used in some industrial productions, but for some enterprises, there are still some safety accidents.