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Challenges and Risks
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Challenges and Risks
Protecting workers from exposure to various hazards such as hazardous dust, liquid chemicals, and low visibility is of utmost importance in the railways and underground.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) plays a critical role in safeguarding the wearer while offering comfort during daily tasks, which are essential for maintaining the highest operational standards.
Inadequate PPE not only poses safety risks but also leads to frequent replacements due to wear and damage from high-friction tasks. Investing in high-quality PPE enhances overall workplace safety, ensures regulatory compliance, and supports operational efficiency, contributing to the optimization of work processes. The modern workplace presents multiple hazards, including visibility and exposure to chemical and biological hazards. For example, rail maintenance teams may be exposed to fast moving machinery, chemical lubricants, biological risks or hazardous dust such as silica which is classified as a carcinogenic agent. This combination of hazards must be addressed when selecting personal protective equipment to ensure compliance.
Advantages of DuPont Protective Clothing
Tyvek® solutions are trusted by major railway and underground companies and sub-contractors to deliver safer, smarter, and more comfortable protection for rail and underground maintenance teams, helping them protect workers, streamline operations, and stay compliant with confidence.
DuPont™ Tyvek® garments offer all-in-one performance by providing exceptional protection, durability, and comfort, making them a premier choice for PPE in railway industry. Designed to endure the demands of environments where the garments are subject to frequent and intense use, these garments offer the protection you need against chemical splashes, hazardous particles (such as silica dust), biohazards, and can ensure high visibility to the highest level*.
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Tyvek® 500 HV
This single-use coverall delivers exceptional visibility while ensuring protection against chemical and biological hazards. Meeting ISO 20471 Class 3 criteria, it was designed with the needs of a major railway workforce in mind and has proven effective across various industrial applications. It is available in 2 designs: with and without a hood.
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DuPont™ Tychem® garments, designed to provide protection against a wide range of chemical hazards, can be particularly useful in the rail industry for chemical resistance needs against hazardous liquids, including acids, bases, and solvents. This is crucial for workers involved in maintenance and cleaning tasks that may expose them to chemical splashes.
Superior protection & compliance
Tyvek® fabric offers an exceptional inherent barrier against particles as small as 1 micron. Unlike many other protective materials, Tyvek® has its protective qualities built directly into the fabric. This means that they cannot be washed away or compromised by scratches.
Tyvek® 500 HV coveralls combine CE-certified protection against rail-specific hazards, such as chemical splashes, hazardous particles (e.g., Silica dust), high-visibility concerns, and biohazards with durability.
Optimum wearer comfort
Tyvek® garments, with their comfort-fit design, are all about providing the durability and protection you expect while offering an even more comfortable fit. Their inherent barrier withholds particles while still allowing air to flow freely through the fabric.
Tyvek® fabric enhances wearer satisfaction due to its durable, breathable, and lightweight features that are particularly important for those working long shifts in tunnels or confined spaces, as comfortable protection can reduce the risk of PPE misuse, thereby improving overall operational safety. In addition, thanks to its versatility, Tyvek® solutions offer multi-hazard protection using one single garment vs layering multiple solutions which can be very uncomfortable.
Simplified Safety with Smarter Operations
With its innovative garment solutions*, DuPont offers simplified PPE management by eliminating the need for laundering therefore reducing contamination risks, making operations cleaner, faster, and easier to manage.
* Tyvek® 500 HV coveralls help eliminate the hygiene and high-visibility risks associated with reusable high-visibility clothing due to repeated washing cycles. With no more concerns about cross-contamination or laundering defects, you can enjoy fresh, clean, and compliant protection every time.
Proven reliability with versatile product range
Tyvek® offering is trusted by leading railway and metro operators worldwide for its ability to handle a wide range of maintenance and cleaning tasks, helping reduce the number of PPE types needed, lower garment consumption, and supports more sustainable, cost-effective operations.
With Tyvek® solutions, monitoring expenses is straightforward, as users only pay the purchasing price. This is particularly beneficial since laundry invoices can be complex, making it nearly impossible for companies to calculate the daily cost per worker.
Railway and metro operators rely on Tyvek® material for its versatility, helping you reduce the number of PPE SKUs, cut down on garment usage, and unlock scale savings—while supporting a more sustainable and efficient procurement process.
Product Solutions
DuPont offers a comprehensive range of suits and accessories tailored to meet your needs for various cleaning and maintenance tasks in the railway industry. Our products are designed to effectively support you in tasks like paint spraying, graffiti removal, cleaning rolling stock, track clearance (biological hazards), cleaning chemical tanks, and high-pressure washing.
For assistance in selecting the right model and identifying the most suitable solution, you can also use the SafeSPEC™ Assistant located in the bottom right corner of the page, or you can contact us.
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Resources
DPP Catalogue
DuPont PPE catalogue is your complete road map to choosing the protection workers need for their specific high-risk tasks.
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SNCF collaborates with DuPont
SNCF, France’s state-owned railway company, needs to protect its maintenance workers from risks ranging from moving trains to potentially dangerous substances like aqueous inorganic chemicals. They called on DuPont Protection Solutions to work with them collaboratively to develop a coverall that would meet their requirements. The result is the innovative Tyvek® 500 HV, a disposable coverall which combines chemical, biological and antistatic protection with high visibility.
High Visibility Protection
High-visibility (high-vis) protective clothing is an essential component of workplace safety. It relies on a combination of bright colors and retroreflective bands to make the wearer easily seen in various lighting conditions and work environments, such as night working in construction and railway maintenance.
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Wearing a high-visibility vest over a chemical coverall isn’t always enough. Improper layering, fabric wear, or frequent laundering can lead to non-compliance with EN ISO 20471.
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Tyvek® 500 Xpert: Expert Guidance for donning & doffing procedures in cooperation with SARP VEOLIA
In this collaborative video with SARP VEOLIA, we learn the essential steps of safely donning and doffing the Tyvek® 500 Xpert protective suit.
