TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Design and evaluation of multifunctional protective clothing for tunnel workers
JO  - International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics
A1  - Jin, Peng
A1  - Jiang, Runtian
A1  - Chen, Qing
A1  - Fan, Jintu
A1  - Zheng, Rong
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - By examining the requirements of tunnel workers, a multifunctional tunnel protective clothing was proposed in this study. The traditional tunnel protective clothing was redesigned from the perspective of improving clothing structure and fabric. A safe and protective clothing system, incorporating a harmful gas detection module, position monitoring module and data transmission module, was developed. <br><br>OBJECTIVE evaluation tests were carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed protective clothing. During the medium-intensity exercise phase, the average skin temperature and humidity of the participants who wore the new protective clothing were 1.0725 °C and 2.6% lower, respectively, than those who wore the conventional protective clothing (P<0.05). Furthermore, the new protective clothing system exhibited a highly sensitive and complete feedback mechanism. The positioning error could be controlled within ±10 cm, when the horizontal spacing distance of the base station was set to 200 m.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1080-3548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2022.2055887
ID  - ref1
ER  -