Hi folks, my name is Don Lyons. I'm the sales manager here for Albany County Fasteners.
Just wanted to grab a few minutes with you today to talk about something near and dear to my heart.
Which is, of course, safety.
One of the reasons why Portwest is near and dear to my heart: their products are superior
in terms of FR, which is what we're gonna talk about today.
Some of the product that we sell, this FR related product, is from Portwest.
Portwest is a great product line with great garments.
Based out of Ireland, they manufacture all their own products and are held to the highest ratings.
ANSI ratings also. I just wanted to show you the balaclava here.
This is an FR treated balaclava Arc 2 rated. The whole idea here is, and any electrician will tell you,
FR products are not meant to save your life from fire.
Anything arc related, it's meant for you to get the heck out of there within 3 seconds to save your life.
That being said, you can look at a product like this...
Flame Resistant.
Wonderful. It'll save your life right?
Again it's not meant to prevent fire, it's meant for you to get out of Dodge as quickly as possible.
That's the goal, that's the case to save your life. You know people get into FR related garments...
It's changing the industry for a few different reasons.
Number 1: OSHA's come in and is saying that it's mandated in most of your ports, anywhere,
that you need class three FR rated products. That being said,
they will not let you into a facility in most cases without that type of product.
To you safety H & S folks, purchasing, who live in this area of FR:
Cat2 to CAT 4 with arc rated 8 Cal to 100 Cal and that includes your coveralls, jackets, and head protection.
We carry it all. Just about anything that you need in terms of FR related garments,
specific to your applications, please feel free to call me.
Call us here at Albany County Fasteners and we will work with you to partner up and put a program together.
So that when you need our product, it's always gonna be there for you.
We can do kits. Whatever works best for you. It's pretty amazing nowadays how far the industry has come,
and how knowledgeable we are nowadays.
When it gets into FR related product versus the applications that a lot of your electricians,
a lot of these folks that work in these facilities, in these plants, you go back 20 or 30 years,
I'll tell you what, there was really no rhyme or reason to even have FR related product.
It did exist, but people were getting hurt.
Nowadays, it's just great to see that we've embedded certain rules and regulations
to make sure that people are safe, people are, you know, abiding by the rules.
Now there's great garments like this to protect people out there.
It's the cost of losing personnel to incidents that, you know, drives up the cost of doing business nowadays.
So if you're safety HMS and you're procurement,
please make sure your folks are wearing the right gear for the right applications.
And if you're looking for the FR, we have a huge, huge line of garments that can fit every application.
This is a true story: when I was first learning about FR garments I asked, I said:
"You know what? Why aren't there any short sleeves?"
Then I thought to myself, I'm like "short sleeves, burnt...oh. Oh yeah, okay."
You don't want any flesh hanging outside of the garment.
You want to make sure it's long sleeve all the time.
So the person buying that garment from me just started laughing and kind of said,
"Oh, you you're pretty green at this." I said, "What makes you say that?"
He said, "Well think about it Don, you know, why would you want to have a short sleeve FR garment?"
So I just put my head between my legs and said, "okay, I get it."
That's my funny story for the day. Sorry, and I'll leave it at that.
So if you're looking to purchase our FR gear, click on the link up in this area.
Or just, you know, check on the description down here below and we should be good to go.
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