At the Emergency Services Show (ESS) 2025 in Birmingham, MSA Safety, Inc., and Bristol Uniforms, Ltd., are presenting their latest advancements in fire safety solutions. These innovations aim to enhance the safety and efficiency of firefighting operations, addressing the challenging situations that firefighters face daily where reliable equipment is crucial.
First Responder Safety
Bristol Fully Managed Services is showcasing its comprehensive solution for maintaining first responder safety. With a focus on the care and maintenance of fire protective clothing (FPC) and firefighter personal protective equipment (PPE), Bristol offers total management and logistical support. The company has developed rigorous repair procedures through extensive experience, ensuring compliance with UK standards for cleaning and inspection.
Enhanced Garment Cleaning Efficiency
Bristol's in-house operations enable them to quickly address unique incidents, supporting customer safety and equipment functionality. Recent facility investments have boosted garment cleaning efficiency, facilitating high-volume processing while maintaining quality. Bristol Fully Managed Services also provides support for additional PPE items such as helmets, boots, hoods, and gloves.
Manager of Bristol Uniforms, Jo Garner, stated, "By combining advanced technology with careful attention to detail, we’re able to enhance the services we provide and better support our customers’ needs and keep firefighters operational." Garner emphasized Bristol's dual role as a manufacturer and service provider, fostering unique customer relationships and delivering innovative safety solutions.
Innovative Fire Protective Clothing
Visitors to the ESS can explore Bristol's full range of innovative fire protective clothing, including the Bristol Rescue Stretch with GORE-TEX CROSSTECH PYRAD fabric offering flexibility and pathogen protection. Other garments such as the Bristol X4 Wildland Garment and X4 TRW-Hybrid Suit are designed for efficiency in extreme conditions. The X4 Structural suit, customizable and meeting high standards, assures comfort and functionality.
Further demonstrating their FPC expertise, Bristol partners PGI Safety and Gore will be present at the MSA and Bristol booth. PGI will present their particulate blocking hoods, distributed exclusively by Bristol in the UK. Gore will demonstrate their FPC textile technology, underscoring their strategic alliance with Bristol.
Fire Safety Solutions
ESS attendees will experience MSA Safety's fire safety expertise and advancements in the MSA Connected Firefighter Platform. This ecosystem of internet-connected technologies optimizes PPE management and data handling, enhancing on-scene decision-making and post-event analysis. The M1 SCBA, MSA HUB, and FireGrid cloud platform exemplify the integration and utility of this data-driven approach.
GALLET Brand Helmets
Highlighting their versatile helmet range, MSA is showcasing the GALLET brand at ESS, including the GALLET F2XR Rescue Helmet and GALLET F1XF. The F2XR helmet, certified for multiple operations, features innovative accessories making it suitable for diverse rescue scenarios. The F1XF marks the evolution of the F1 design's 40-year legacy, illustrating MSA's commitment to continual innovation in firefighter safety.
MSA is located at Booth 5/G190 at ESS 2025. For updates on the latest at ESS, follow MSA Safety's social media platforms.
Firefighters can find themselves in challenging situations on the job every day, and they expect their equipment to be working and to help keep them safe on each call.
MSA Safety, Inc., and Bristol Uniforms, Ltd., understand this expectation, and this week, at the Emergency Services Show (ESS) in Birmingham, United Kingdom, both are showcasing how their expertise in fire safety solutions and in fire equipment care can help firefighters and fire brigades enhance efficiency and safety.
First responder safety
Bristol Fully Managed Services will highlight their end-to-end solution for helping to promote first responder safety
Featuring their expertise in caring for equipment, Bristol Fully Managed Services will highlight their end-to-end solution for helping to promote first responder safety.
Bristol Fully Managed Services offers total management and logistical support for the care and maintenance of fire protective clothing (FPC) and firefighter personal protective equipment (PPE).
Bristol associates have developed intensive repair routines based on years of experience and proven results, while adhering to key standards covering cleaning and inspection in the United Kingdom.
Enhanced garment cleaning efficiency
As a FPC manufacturer and service provider, having all operations in-house provides Bristol with the unique ability to find solutions and quickly respond to unique situations or incidents in the fire service, helping to keep customers safe and their equipment functional.
Recent investments in Bristol facilities have enhanced garment cleaning efficiency, with a set up for handling a high volume of garments while maintaining quality and accountability. Bristol Fully Managed Services can provide equipment support for additional PPE, including fire helmets, boots, hoods and gloves.
Attention to detail
“By combining advanced technology with careful attention to detail, we’re able to enhance the services we provide and better support our customers’ needs and keep firefighters operational,” said Jo Garner, Manager of Bristol Uniforms.
“Our expertise as a manufacturer and a service provider allows us to develop a unique relationship with our customers. This allows for us to develop innovative safety solutions that are driven by our customers, while delivering on the value our services provide by helping to make fire operations more efficient.”
Innovative fire protective clothing
Bristol Uniforms will have the full line of fit for purpose, innovative fire protective clothing on display at ESS, including:
- Bristol Rescue Stretch: Bristol’s newest style, it integrates one of the industry’s latest innovations, the lightweight GORE-TEX CROSSTECH PYRAD stretch fabric, and is flexible, waterproof, wind proof, and has blood-borne pathogen protection;
- Bristol X4 Wildland Garment: Designed to be worn for longer periods of time in hot environments, it offers lightweight comfort to help firefighters in situations where wearing a structural suit could be too inefficient,
- Bristol X4 TRW-Hybrid Suit: Designed for the evolving demands of technical rescue teams and wildland firefighters alike, it can transition from technical rescue to wildland firefighting applications, and;
- Bristol X4 Structural: Providing enhanced comfort, the style is made to conform with the most widely used standards, EN269:2020 – Level 2 and EN1149.5:2018, and is highly customizable.
Further showcasing expertise in FPC, two Bristol partners will be featured in the MSA and Bristol booth at ESS. PGI Safety, maker of the PGI particulate blocking hoods, will be showing how the hoods provide flame, heat and particulate protection without sacrificing breathability or comfort.
Bristol is the exclusive PGI hood distributor in the U.K. Additionally, Gore will be displaying their FPC textile technology, as they are one of Bristol’s strategic suppliers for fire protective clothing.
Fire safety solutions
ESS attendees will also see MSA’s expertise in fire safety solutions and the latest enhancements
ESS attendees will also see MSA’s expertise in fire safety solutions and the latest enhancements to the MSA Connected Firefighter Platform, an ecosystem of internet-connected technologies that help fire and rescue services better manage PPE and related data associated with use and maintenance.
The ecosystem includes the M1 SCBA, MSA’s modular breathing apparatus system; the MSA HUB, a wireless, cloud-connected gateway for on-scene and remote monitoring; and FireGrid cloud platform solution.
MSA Safety will be highlighting the impact and value of the data that is available from the Connected Firefighter Platform and how data transmitted directly from the M1 SCBA to the cloud is integrated with FireGrid to help enhance safety, inform on-scene decision making, and make monitoring and post-event analysis easier.
GALLET brand of fire helmets
MSA Safety will also be featuring its GALLET brand of fire helmets at ESS
MSA Safety will also be featuring its GALLET brand of fire helmets at ESS, including the GALLET F2XR Rescue Helmet and GALLET F1XF.
Designed to meet a multitude of challenges, the GALLET F2XR rescue helmet is certified for water operations, featuring innovative accessories like an integrated ocular visor and modular waterproof ear protection covers that are suitable for water rescue missions and uniquely approved for use on motorized boats.
40 years of continuous innovation
It is also certified for wildland firefighting, technical rescue, urban search and rescue, and climbing, providing firefighters a versatile option that can help to enhance their safety during incidents.
The GALLET F1XF, serving as the latest generation of the iconic F1 helmet design, will also be featured, as the GALLET F1 celebrates 40 years of continuous innovation in the fire service.
This year MSA is in Booth 5/G190. Keep up-to-date with the latest ESS happenings by following MSA Safety's social media platforms.
