Clothing design Long, loose fitting clothing, such as nightgowns, are more dangerous than close-fitting clothing, as they can swing away from the body and make contact with a flame. How common are these injuries? The standard applies to nightwear and some daywear from size 00 up to Remember: Look for and choose sleepwear and clothing with low fire danger labeling for your child.
Keep your child away from fires, radiators, heaters, BBQs, candles, lighters and matches. Use guards around fires, radiators and heaters. Print Send Share This :. Child health and safety topics Drowning prevention and water safety. Smoking: Tobacco and E-cigarettes. Burns and scalds. Poison safety. Page Content. All fabrics will burn, but some are more combustible than others. Cotton and linen also have a high burning rate but this can be alleviated by the application of flame-retardant chemical additives.
Acetate and triacetate are as flammable or slightly less flammable than cotton. However, they can be made flame-retardant with chemical treatment.
Nylon, polyester and acrylic tend to be slow to ignite but once ignited, severe melting and dripping occurs. Wool is comparatively flame-retardant. If ignited, it usually has a low burning rate and may self-extinguish. Glass fibers and modacrylic are almost flame-resistant. Particularly untreated materials such as cotton, linen and silk not only catch on fire quickly, but burn rapidly as well.
While these flammable materials do not melt the way manmade ones do, red, burning hot embers remain once the flame has been extinguished. These materials, particularly cotton, are often treated with flame retardants, making them suitable for thermal exposures, once they have been tested using one of the standard industry test methods for flammability, such as ASTM D A popular performance-fabric sportswear brand was banned by the United States Marines a decade ago because of melting hazards that occur at high temperatures, such as the ones troops were encountering during service in Iraq.
Since then, other branches of the military, along with many fire departments across the country, have followed suit.
Always discuss the preferred flame-resistant clothing standards with your employer to ensure your safety, as well as the safety of others, while on the job. Founded in , Workrite was a pioneer in FR clothing in the United States and is now a worldwide leader in safety apparel. Also read: Is Resin Flammable? It is worth noting that if polyester does burn, the fumes that it releases are likely to be toxic and you should evacuate the area.
When researchers tested burning polymers in meters cubed rooms with rats — it took very little polymer being burned to kill a rat. The good news is that human beings are bigger than rats and can take rather more punishment, but it does suggest that you should stay well out of the way of fumes if you can help it. Also read: Are Spider Webs Flammable?
Polyester, according to the Washington Post , and most of the textile industry is fire-resistant. It is worth noting, however, for the sake of completeness that many people have concerns about the use of phthalates in clothing and bedding. There is no evidence that these compounds are harmful in any specific manner, as yet, but concerns exist that they may cause cancers and interfere with human hormone production.
If that bothers you, you might want to steer clear of polyester when buying bedding, pajamas, etc. Also read: Is Nylon Flammable?
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