PPE Compliance Standards Explained
The real Australian/New Zealand standards VANTREK's PPE range is tested against — gloves, eyewear, hearing, head, footwear, flame-resistant clothing and height safety — and the wording that separates a claim we hold evidence for from one a supplier made.
The standards, by product type
Occupational protective gloves: AS/NZS 2161 (also commonly cited to EN 388, which rates abrasion, cut, tear and puncture resistance on a four-digit scale — what this catalogue's gloves are actually tested to).
Eye protection: AS/NZS 1337.1. Hearing protection: AS/NZS 1270. Industrial safety helmets: AS/NZS 1801. Safety footwear: AS/NZS 2210.3. Industrial fall-arrest systems (height safety): AS/NZS 1891.
Protective clothing for welding and other flame-resistant work: AS/NZS 4824, alongside ASTM F1959 (the arc thermal test that produces an ATPV rating), BS EN ISO 11612 (clothing against heat and flame) and NFPA 70 (the electrical safety standard arc ratings are selected against).
"Certified to" vs "supplied as"
These two phrases carry different weight, and VANTREK doesn't use them interchangeably. "Certified to" a standard is a statement of fact about a test document VANTREK actually holds. "Supplied as" meeting a standard attributes that claim to the supplier who made it, without VANTREK's own evidence behind it. Which phrase a product uses tells you where the claim actually comes from.
If a product doesn't state a rating
A standard only appears against a product here when there's a real, published standard behind it and defined evidence VANTREK can point to — never assumed from the product category alone. If a product's own listing doesn't clearly support a compliance claim, VANTREK doesn't assign one it can't back up. Check that specific product's own compliance information rather than assuming from its type or price point.
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