OREANDA-NEWS. May 12, 2010. Specialists of IDGC of Centre, JSC participated in testing of overall resistance to electric arc and open flame conducted in April in Swiss testing centres. In the course of travelling seminar the participants visited pilot production of heat-resistant fibers from which textiles “Nomeks” is produced. Overall from these heat-resistant materials is resistant to impact of electric arc and is used in the power company.

Compliance with the labour protection rights and solving of industrial safety security tasks are the important directions of IDGC of Centre policy. The Company provides the employees with all the things needed to secure their labour: up-to-date technologies, equipment, training and personal protective equipment (PPE) allowing to reduce injuries risks considerably. In electric power industry every day about 40 % of personnel (operating and operation and maintenance personnel) are in zone of thermal risks, and role of overall that prevents getting of thermal injury cannot be exaggerated.

Testing of resistance to electric arc impact of overall used by the power engineers of IDGC of Centre was conducted in testing centres of Switzerland. Wearing time of such protective outerwear suit is two years determined by standards. Possibility to extend the wearing time of these suits is provided by the regulatory documents of IDGC of Centre on condition of confirmation of their thermoresistant properties preservation. Testing conducted by the company “Dyupon” proved that even after ending of normative wearing time including after 50 washes the suites produced from the textiles “Nomeks” preserve their thermoresistant properties.

Pilot testing of protective properties of the suits was conducted in accordance with the requirements of GOST R 12.4.234-2007 methods based on the standard of International Electrotechnical Commission. Testing of suits for resistance to electric arc was conducted at the special installation simulating electric arc with respect to earlier set parameters. When testing air temperature attained 10 000 degrees Celsius.