Refresher seminar: Personal protective equipment
Seminar period: July 08 – 09, 2025
2-day seminar on MS teams, participation with the camera switched on is desired.
each 10:00 – 15:00h
5 teaching units of 45 minutes each incl. breaks
Costs:
€ 495.00 plus VAT
Target group:
- Employees from sales, purchasing and research and development departments
- Product management
- Quality management
- Sustainability management
Target:
The basic and refresher seminar “Personal protective equipment (PPE)” offers a comprehensive introduction to textile equipment for personal protective equipment. The lecturers Prof. Dr. Maike Rabe and Prof. Dr. Robert Groten will respond individually to the participants and offer the opportunity to bring specific questions and discuss them together with you and the other participants.
Contents:
- Overview of personal protective equipment
- Textile materials for applications in the field of personal protective equipment
- Basics of textile finishing
- Special areas of coloring
- Special equipment
Day 1:
Overview of personal protective equipment
- Ballistics and stab protection
- Heat protection
- Cold protection
- Electrician’s protective suit
- Chemical protection
- Cleanroom clothing
- Clothing for hospital staff
Textile Materials for applications in the field of personal protective equipment
- Basic knowledge of polymers
- Polymer groups
- Special polymers
Day 2:
Basics of textile finishing
Special areas of coloring
- Colorfulness, color scheme
- Warning colors
- Color fastness
- Camouflage printing
Special equipment
- Flame protection
- Waterproofing
- Adsorption (+ adsorption of warfare agents, IR)
- Vector protection
- Antistatic
- Laminating
- Membrane textiles
Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Maike Rabe
Professor of Textile Finishing and Ecology and Head of the Research Institute for Textiles and Clothing
Prof. Dr. Robert Groten
Professor of Technical Textiles and Head of the Innovatorium at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
Notes:
- The following apply General Terms and Conditions of Textilakademie NRW – Weiterbildung GmbH
Admission requirements:
No admission requirements are necessary for this seminar.