WASHING AND TAKING CARE YOUR WORK CLOTHES Properly washing and caring for your work clothes helps retain their features longer. Dirty or worn-out work clothes look unclean and may even lose their protective qualities or visibility. This is how you do it: • Wash the clothes when necessary. Dirt wears fabric out faster than washing.
• Do not use bar or liquid soap when cleaning flame retardant clothing. • Rinse carefully.
• Close the Velcro straps, snap fasteners and zippers before washing. • Do not wash full loads (fill the machine only to 60–80 % of the capacity). This way, you can minimise possible damage caused by wrinkling or abrasion, and the clothes get cleaner.
• Drying the clothes in the dryer for too long may shrink the clothes. Remove the clothes from the dryer while they are still a bit damp. • Generally wash at 60 °C.
• Always wash the EN-coded protective clothing separately, inside out. This enables the reflective tapes to stay reflective longer.
• The following items require washing at 40 °C: 648, 688, 688R, 860, 6030, 6039, 6051, 6059, 6062, 6065, 6067, 6073, 6079, 18121, children's products and a part of the Dimex+ items.
• Avoid soaking clothing items with reflective tapes.
• Always follow the washing instructions marked in the labels.
• Do not use steam when ironing reflective tapes.
• Keep the clothes on hangers and, if possible, away from sunlight.
• Keep flame retardant clothing clean.
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