China has updated its
mandatory national standard for high visibility protective clothing – GB
20653-2020.
The standard covers
professional use high visibility clothing designed using fluorescent and
retroreflective materials. The intention of the clothing it to provide
conspicuous warning of the worker in an environment where visibility is poor.
GB 20653-2020 contains provisions relating to classes and design, and
the performance of:
- Background materials
- Non-fluorescent and
combined materials - Retroreflective and
combined materials
Among the main technical changes are:
Additions:
- Some terms and
definitions - Requirement for
measuring an area of high visibility warning clothing and class rating - Chemical
properties requirements and test methods for background and non-fluorescent materials - Normative Annex
D – “positioning of bands of retroreflective material for industrial wash test” - Informative Annex
F – “environment risk level and guidelines for the design of high visibility
garments”
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Revisions:
- Standard name
is updated from ‘High visibility warning
clothing for professional use’ to ‘Protective
clothing—High visibility warning clothing for
professional use’ - Design
requirements for warning clothing - Ergonomic
requirements for warning clothing - Colorfastness requirements
for perspiration on background and
non-fluorescent materials - Colorfastness requirements
– domestic and commercial laundering, dry-cleaning, bleaching (hypochlorite),
hot pressing - Dimensional
change requirements for background and
non-fluorescent materials + test method - Mechanical
properties requirements for background and non-fluorescent materials - Retroreflective performance
requirements for separate performance retroreflective
materials and cancelled three classes - Test methods of
dimensional change after washing or dry-cleaning - Graphical
symbol of high visibility warning clothing and the deletion of the markings
(indicating Performance Class) of the graphical symbol in GB 20653-2006
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Issued by the Standardization
Administration of China, the new standard was included in China’s No. 18
announcement of newly approved national standards for 2020. It replaces the
version iteration – GB 20653-2006 – and will come into effect on August 1, 2021.
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