The Research Journal of the Costume Culture (복식문화연구)

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Anthropometric study of the head for the development of firefighting hoods for firefighters

소방공무원의 방화두건 제작을 위한 머리 치수 연구

  • Jeong, Da Wun (Dept. of Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Jang, Mina (Dept. of Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Kwon, Chae-Ryung (Dept. of Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Eun (Dept. of Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Lee, In Seong (Dept. of Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University)
  • 정다운 (이화여자대학교 의류산업학과) ;
  • 장미나 (이화여자대학교 의류산업학과) ;
  • 권채령 (이화여자대학교 의류산업학과) ;
  • 김동은 (이화여자대학교 의류산업학과) ;
  • 이인성 (이화여자대학교 의류산업학과)
  • Received : 2017.07.25
  • Accepted : 2017.08.28
  • Published : 2017.10.31
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Abstract

Firefighting hoods protect the head, face, and neck areas of officials while they perform firefighting services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the head size of Korean firefighting officials in order to establish the dimensions necessary to construct firefighting hoods. A total of 98 male firefighting officials participated in this study and 11 body dimensions, necessary for the construction of firefighting hoods, were measured. The data collected from the firefighting officials were compared to the general adult male data from the Size Korea national anthropometric study. The heights, weights, head circumferences, head heights, and bitragion arcs of the firefighters were significantly larger than those of general adult males, which shows that firefighting officials generally have larger body and head sizes than general adult males. Based on the results of Pearson's correlation coefficients, head circumference and head height were judged to be the important measurements for the construction of the firefighting hoods. Thus, these two measurements were chosen as the basic dimensions of the cross tabulation analysis. As a result, head circumferences of 57.00~60.99cm and head heights of 23.00~25.99 cm were found to be important measurement ranges among the firefighters. This study is expected to be used as the basis for the creation of firefighting hoods that help to ensure the safe rescue activities for firefighting officials.

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