Published May 8, 2023 | Version v1
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Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Protective Clothing

  • 1. Netherlands Institute of Public Safety (NIPV)

Description

This proceedings book contains the extended abstracts from the 10th European Conference on Protective Clothing, May 9-12, 2023, Arnhem, The Netherlands. The aim of the European Conference on Protective Clothing series is to promote research and cooperation in the area of personal protection. Functional and comfortable protective clothing is a key element for successful implementation of preventive and protective measures at the workplaces. The 10th ECPC covers a broad spectrum of the subject protective clothing, and has turned into an internationally qualified source of new, valuable, and useful information for the advancement of knowledge and the application of protective clothing. The conference has become a platform to disseminate, exchange and discuss the results of research, project developments and implementation programmes related to protective clothing, with a strong focus on user protection and well-being. Ergonomics is still a strong component of the conference within the new challenges related to climate change, pandemics, and development of digital technology with new smart functions being an integrated part of textiles and modern PPE. Issues related to sustainability, durability of the products and consideration of the full life cycle of PPE is high up on the agenda today. The changing business needs support from legislation and work with standardization must keep up the pace so that the innovative and safe products can reach the market. This conference acts as a forum for industries, public authorities and academic organizations – researchers, designers, manufacturers, purchasers, health and safety experts, human factors experts and procurement specialists and end-users to exchange and discuss research and project development for personal protective clothing (PPC) and equipment (PPE).

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20230508-NIPV-ESPC-Proceedings-of-the-10th-European-Conference-on-Protective-Clothing.pdf