Total PPE is a Total Fire Group offering designed to make all fire service PPE products simultaneously more cost efficient and more effectively protective, through use of:

• In-place industrial launderers
• Repair programs, and
• Tracking and PPE management infrastructures

The program can also be easily combined with Quartermaster programs.

Does Total PPE relate to only clothing?

Not at all. We started with Morning Pride clothing in 2000. Since then, Total Fire Group has developed programs for ALL of our own fire service brands:

• Morning Pride Clothing
• Morning Pride Helmets
• PRO-Warrington Boots
• Ranger Boots
• Servus Boots
• Fire-Warrior Micro Thermal Imaging Cameras
• Kore Kooler Rehab Chairs
• American Firewear Gloves, Hoods, Suspenders, Gear Bags, Auxiliary Clothing and Special Operations Recovery Drag device.

Total PPE may be applied to other branded PPE, and auxiliary gear such as station uniforms, fire axes, SCBAs, etc.

Acquistion costs of these other products can be included now, please see the Total PPE Worksheets for further details.

What prompted the availabilty of TOTAL PPE?

• The fire service is the last vocational field where the employer provides and maintains the vocational clothing. Most industries have gone to professional clothing care programs due to cost efficiencies: extra services that can be provided at lower costs, due to the infrastructures which professional care providers have in place, and the cost efficiencies those existing infrastructures allow.
• Until 2001, no fire service cleaning and care standard existed. NFPA 1851, Standard on Selection, Care and Maintenance of Structural Fire Fighting Protective Ensembles, first published in 2001, provided that standard. It is a companion document to NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting Ensembles. NFPA 1851 re-issued in the 2008 edition as a companion to the 2007 edition of NFPA 1971 which for both standards now also included Proximity PPE.
• Until there was a national cleaning and care standard, professional cleaners were reluctant to enter our high liability-exposure marketplace. NFPA 1851 provides that national standard, and allows the entry of these professional program managers.
• The fire service increasingly recognized the need for professional care because of:
  - Emerging research on the importance of clean and properly repaired gear
  - New requirements for garment traceability and tracking
  - NFPA 1500 requirement that gear MUST be cleaned at least every 6 months

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