Welding & heat PPE

One range, one project

The components of a welding or heat-protective range — each with the page that carries its technical detail:

• Protective clothing — welding clothing to EN ISO 11611 (Class 1 and 2); heat- and flame-protective clothing to EN ISO 11612 (codes A–F): protective clothing certification.
• Welding gloves — EN 12477 (Type A and B), thermal performance to EN 407: welding PPE certification · glove testing.
• Protective footwear — footwear for welding and allied processes to EN ISO 20349-2: safety footwear certification.
• Materials and construction — abrasion, seam and material strength, flexing endurance on the fabrics and leathers of the range: abrasion and durability testing.
• General requirements — EN ISO 13688 behind every garment (innocuousness, sizing, marking).

The route, step by step

1. Components and requirements: which products of the range are PPE, which standard and class each one targets, which category it falls into.
2. Existing evidence: material, component and product test reports and earlier certificates — reviewed first.
3. Remaining tests: the list of what still has to be measured, per product.
4. Testing: in BIMEO's laboratory where the method is in-house — radiant-heat protection and limited flame spread, material and seam strength, abrasion and flexing, the EN 388 package and TDM cut resistance. Where a standard requires a test our own equipment does not cover, we say so before quoting and it is sourced separately.
5. Technical documentation: assessment of the file the Regulation requires — material data, construction, user information, risk analysis.
6. EU type-examination (Module B): each product within the NB 1524 designation, a certificate on a conforming result.
7. Category III surveillance: annual Module C2 or D surveillance by our partner notified body GÉPTESZT (NB 2233), coordinated with the type-examination.

Existing evidence is reviewed first

Experienced manufacturers rarely start from zero: a fabric already has a test report, a glove leather was measured last year, an earlier version of the garment holds a certificate. BIMEO reviews that evidence first and determines what can be used and what additional work is required — we do not promise in advance that a report will be accepted, and we do not ask you to repeat what already stands.

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Measured here — and said plainly when not

On garments and materials, radiant-heat protection and limited flame spread are measured with our own laboratory's equipment, as are material and seam strength, abrasion and flexing endurance. On gloves, the mechanical package of EN 388 and the straight-blade TDM cut test (EN ISO 13997) run in-house. When a standard calls for a test beyond that, the scope review names it — before the quotation, not after — and the certificate still comes from one body.

Manufacturers outside the EU

Welding PPE has long been one of our focus areas for manufacturers in Asia and the wider region. The procedure runs remotely, in English, with courier samples — how the remote route works.