Ideal climatic conditions are closely related to safety, health, performance and satisfaction of employees. High temperatures are reflected in worse performance and reduced concentration and may lead to health and safety risks for the persons affected. Unfortunately, the material of the protective clothing is quite dense and that drives the sweat out of your pores in no time. Sweating, however, requires an enormous amount of energy. One therefore feels quickly exhausted and listless even at normal temperatures, also because the cardiovascular load and the core body temperature rise – often even into the range of fever temperatures with which others would stay in bed. Heat exhaustion and other heat-related health problems can result. Older emergency personnel are particularly at risk here.
SWEATING IN A PROTECTIVE SUIT MAKES YOU TIRED AND UNFOCUSED
That is why sweating in a protective suit is dangerous. Also because the ability to concentrate decreases and one makes mistakes more easily. This is dangerous for others in the field, but also for oneself. This is because dangerous contamination, from which the suit is actually supposed to protect, often occurs when the suit is removed. With decreasing concentration, this happens much more often.
In doing so, cooling can help protect emergency personnel, prevent staff shortages, and improve the crisis situation by providing healthy and effective emergency and medical personnel.
HEAT STRESS IS DANGEROUS
Anyone who has even once worked in protective clothing knows that this leads to enormous heat stress. All those who have to wear protective suits or appropriate protective clothing get problems, especially in the long-term. But not only this. The temperature load reduces the working time in the protective suit. This can have health consequences for the wearer of the protective clothing. Therefore, timely breaks are necessary to recover from the work in the protective suit. At each break, the protective suit is then taken off and a new one is put on again at the end of the break. This increases the risk of contamination every time you take them off. The suits must then, of course, be disposed of or decontaminated and new suits used.
As a result, more protective clothing is needed. This also drives up the number of protective suits needed and the cost to the health care system. But above all, the health hazard for each individual.
The supply of cooling concepts and products for medical facilities is offered by our partner QRCOOL. Die Konzepte berücksichtigen die erhöhten Hygieneanforderungen dieser Einrichtungen. On request, we will establish direct contact or you can simply inform yourself at https://www.qrskin.com/products/qrcool/about-qrcool.html.
"Protective suits make you feel like you're cutting off your air and cause enormous sweating, which makes your usual work an ordeal. The physical strain then often triggers a psychological strain when you realize how quickly you are at the end of your rope." "
WORKING LONGER IN A PROTECTIVE SUIT
With E.COOLINE you stay healthy, concentrated and efficient in your protective suit. The active cooling functional clothing is quickly ready for use, mobile and can be used anywhere even under extreme conditions. Thanks to the COOLINE SX3 3D technology, emergency personnel are actively cooled for hours with up to 660 watts. Activation works in seconds and clothes remain hygienic and dry compared to most cooling systems.
The cooling vests, cooling shirts, cooling headgear and arm and leg cooling is simply used under the protective suit and also during breaks. This relieves the strain on the cardiovascular system and allows you to work in a much more concentrated manner over the entire period, significantly increasing your safety and health and thus keeping you fit for duty.
Another decisive advantage: with E.COOLINE you do not get the heat load to zero, but according to tests on emergency personnel in various protective suits, the operating time in the suit can be doubled, which in turn significantly reduces the number of protective suits required.
EFFECTIVE HEAT PROTECTION IN CSA
WHY YOU SHOULD USE E.COOLINE IN A PROTECTIVE SUIT
Doubling the maximum working time
Saves disposable protective suits
Better concentration while working
Greater safety when changing suits
More health and safety for emergency forces
OPERATING TIME DOUBLED BY E.COOLINE
Field tests have already proven it: With E.COOLINE cooling vests and head cooling, such as a bandana, the working time in the chemical protection suit but of course also in all other protective suits can be significantly extended. The results of the tests in the Zytron 400 i (chemical protective suit) at the Darmstadt fire department demonstrate:
Of course, cooling in a chemical protection suit has limits at some point – after all, this is a closed system. But the working time in these suits is basically limited in many cases. At the latest, when high outside temperatures are added. The application of cooling, such as cooling vest and a cooling headgear, can extend this application time. In contrast, the suit without cooling is usually then replaced much sooner, a second suit must be used or else the durability of the suits suffers from the many decontaminations . If the work can be done with cooling, it helps the health but also to save costs and you have to dispose less hazardous waste. This helps the environment but also the supply of the population, because protective suits are in short supply due to the Corona pandemic. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
" I'm not giving mine away anymore."
E.COOLINE WORKS EVEN IN EXTREME CONDITIONS
Whether in a chemical spill, in an Ebola crisis area, or in the fight against the Corona virus, E.COOLINE’s high-tech technology functions perfectly even under extreme conditions. Depending on the respective conditions, the cooling clothing can be used immediately under the protective suit or boosted beforehand (COOL-TO-GO system). Cooling before or after use is also useful, as studies show. As recently published in the British Journal, cooling garments should always be used beforehand or during periods without protective clothing.
Regeneration during breaks is also important to ensure that emergency personnel and medical staff are quickly fit again. Cooling is a very effective regeneration method that saves energy, which is urgently needed for the next job. Depending on the operational situation, there is a suitable solution for every situation with cooling vests & Co. We will be happy to advise you – also by video, telephone or with digital training material. Ask us!
