Carhartt Flame-Resistant Clothing - Designed to Protect, Built to Last

Carhartt has always designed their product tomakes thirty one different flame-resistant
protect you from cold temperatures and harshproducts for both the male and female workers.
weather conditions. They have also alwaysWith each flame-resistant product that they
constructed it to last whether you work in themake, it is given a HRC rating which tells the
farm fields, oil refineries, or are doing jobs aroundworker the level of protection that the piece of
the house. In the last few years, Carhartt hasclothing provides. Different industries and jobs
designed their Flame-Resistant clothing line andrequire different levels of protection while layering
continues to advance their products. Theseof flame-resistant clothing also adds increased
products may not look much different from theirprotection to meet these required levels. OSHA
other products, such as their pants, shirts, andregulations have added more strict rules to job
jackets, but have a purpose to protect thesites as to who must wear flame-resistant
worker.clothing and what level of protection they must
Electric lineman, pipeline and refinery workers, ashave.
well as industrial electricians can be at risk ofCarhartt's flame-resistant clothing has been built
electric arcs and flash fires in their work places.with the long-lasting and durable thinking that most
These arc flashes can result in exposure toof their customer's have been used to for many
temperatures as high as 35,000 degreesyears. Their flame-resistant clothing will continue
Fahrenheit, four times the surface temperature ofto be flame-resistant for the life of the garment
the sun. These flashes are short-lived blasts butif the garment-care instructions are followed,
with their severity combined with improperunlike some competitors who treat the fabric to
clothing, your body is exposed to temperaturesbe flame-resistant, but is then washed out of the
that can be very harmful or even deadly.fabric over time.
Carhartt has designed their flame-resistant clothingCarhartt has expanded its flame-resistant clothing
to protect your body from these extremeline just like it did with its traditional work clothing
temperatures and will self-distinguish once theto serve the women in these industries. With
heat source has been removed. With cottondifferent styles of shirts, pants, and jackets for
clothing, after the heat source is removed, thethe workers, workers who require this clothing
material will continue to burn which causesare sure to be not only safe but comfortable in
additional injuries to the worker. Carhartt currentlythe clothing as well.