High-quality equipment is important for fighting fires because it provides the best possible protection. Post-deployment hygiene should not be neglected since contamination can lead to considerable health hazards. A+A, the world’s leading trade fair with congress for safety, security and health at work, presents everything revolving around modern protective clothing for firefighters in Düsseldorf, Germany from October 17 – 20, 2017.
International studies show that firefighters are at a greater risk of cancer than the average population. A topic that will also be addressed at the 35th International Congress for Occupational Safety and Occupational Medicine held during A+A 2017 in the “Cancer Risk among Firefighters” session. It is assumed that the reason for these risks are fumes whose poisonous particles are deposited in protective clothing after fires and which can enter the bodies of emergency personnel through their skins or respiratory organs. “New findings on the dangers of contamination of the most varied kind lead both to uncertainty and, at the same time, rising demands concerning the nature and implementation of care, control and repair,” says Daniel von Chamier, COO at the LHD Group Deutschland GmbH. The manufacturer of protective clothing will this year show its product brand LION in Hall 11 at A+A.