DBI-SALA, a Capital Safety brand dedicated to the fall protection market, recently announced the launch of their new Nomex®/Kevlar® High Temperature fall protection range.
The Nomex®/Kevlar® range of fall protection equipment includes a harness and two shock absorbing lanyard models designed to cover the majority of applications encountered in high temperature work environments. Nomex® and Kevlar® are renowned for their heat, flame and cut-resistant properties, and combined, these two materials form the basis of Capital Safety’s new high temperature fall protection range.
Nomex®/Kevlar® high temperature fall protection equipment is ideal for use in ‘Hot Work’ such: as welding, flame cutting and grinding, where sparks and slag can easily compromise standard polyester webbing harnesses and lanyards. Combined with dielectric hardware on the harness, Nomex®/ Kevlar® fall protection equipment is also ideal choice for utility industry workers facing high-voltage electrical surroundings. Workers in these situations are faced with applications where static build up and static energy transfer can cause unexpected arc flashes that can ignite or melt standard fall protection harnesses and lanyards, leading to a failure to arrest a fall.
Durable Nomex®/Kevlar® high temperature fall protection equipment is resistant to extreme heat, cuts and abrasions, and the lanyards are suitable for workers who have a combined body weight with tools and equipment between 50kg and 160kg. Additionally, the Nomex®/Kevlar® lanyards provide a solution to the issues surrounding compatible hardware, forced roll-out and side gate loading that have been present on connecting hardware used in industry for some time.
DBI-SALA’s i-Safe™ intelligent safety system is built into every Nomex®/Kevlar® high temperature harness and lanyard to track inspections, control inventory and manage information. i-Safe™ utilises RFID technology which is equipped on most DBI-SALA products, together with web-enabled information management, to take fall protection to a new level of performance and safety.