Fencing Draft notes:Safety Tests
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Changes for v6.0
7 Safety tests
- Addition of heading General to prevent numbering collision with following section
- Following rules renumbered
7.1
- Was
- Not in rules
- Now
- Tests to penetration-resistant material must be made on the object itself, not a swatch of identical material, unless such a swatch undergoes the same stresses as the garment by being sewn onto the inside of a garment, as the swatch will not otherwise have undergone the same stresses over time.
- Functional change
- Clarification to ensure that a swatch of material cannot be kept in a closet and brought out to punch test; the protective garment itself must be subject to the test.
- Reason
- Swatch of fabric will otherwise not be subjected to the same wear and tear as the garment itself.
- For notes section
- April 2023 Clarification added to ensure that a swatch of material cannot be kept in a closet and brought out to punch test; the protective garment itself must be subject to the test, as the swatch of fabric will otherwise not be subjected to the same wear and tear as the garment itself.