Fire Safety Group Rejects Push To Drop PPE Test Seen Mandating PFAS

September 14, 2021
The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) standards committee has rejected a firefighting union’s appeal to eliminate a test for personal protective equipment (PPE) usually met with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), dealing a blow to the union and others who hope to remove the chemicals from safety gear. The proposal termed “tentative interim amendment” (TIA) 1594 would have rewritten NFPA’s 1971 Standard on Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting to eliminate a durability test requiring gear...


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