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Try again later, or contact our webmaster. Skip navigation Search Francis. Francis University Open search bar. Since then, the title has morphed into HauteWork, a play on "hot work" — an industry term for welding or any sort of work requiring a flame and a special permit. The year-old engineer filed for the LLC in She put together a test and survey group of women who were friends or friends of friends, including all of her female co-workers at Chevron. Although the collection is utilitarian, color has not been sacrificed.
In addition to four styles of jumpsuits, there are also tees and pants. Glas launched a website at the end of last year, not really expecting the internet to be her primary sales channel. She envisioned the bulk of her sales coming from contracts with energy companies after alerting them to her product. Within the first few months, however, more than jumpsuits had sold online to individual women who felt the same way Glas did about wearing man-style clothing with the crotch down to their knees.
Baby T-Shirts. Baby One Pieces. Baby Hats. Baby Bibs. Face Masks. Pillow Cases. Water Bottles. Mouse Pads. Lunch Boxes. Teddy Bear Toys. In this interview, entrepreneur Glas shares her thoughts on developing and launching a new product—all while maintaining her full-time job as a reservoir engineer. It was then that she began to make strides in her development of Hot Stuff Safetywear and ultimately launch the company. Many women in the oil and gas industry lament the limited options available for field wear, so it is exciting to see the launch of your new products.
Growing up, I always had a particular interest in fashion. When I went to college, I treated my first year as a learning experience and took a variety of courses from fashion history to differential equations to Mandarin language. When I accepted my first internship with Chevron, I was truly treating the experience as a trial in the industry to see if I enjoyed the work. One of the first observations I made about life in the oil field was not only the shortage of women, but also the flame-resistant clothing options that were very clearly designed for men.
After that summer, I knew I wanted to be a petroleum engineer. The industry is electric and there is an addictive feeling working for an industry that very literally fuels the world.
But I always had in the back of my mind that maybe one day safety wear could be my opportunity to marry my experience in the industry and love of fashion. Your line, Hot Stuff Safetywear, launched in June of this year. How long have you been on this journey from conception to launch? The idea for Hot Stuff was born in during my second internship with Chevron. That spring, OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] established the requirement that all personnel involved in oil and gas well drilling, servicing, and production-related operations wear fire-resistant clothing [FRC] during the jobs.
I vividly remember telling my mother about the baggy coveralls I had to wear and how I wanted to change that. As safety wear, your coveralls require not only fashion design, but also must adhere to safety regulations. For those unfamiliar with the requirements, would you please describe the process of certification? The code that sets the standard on flame-resistant garments for protection of industrial personnel against flash fire is NFPA Most flame-resistant brands strive to comply with both of these standards, which require extensive testing for certification.
The first step for us was to seek out component fabric, zippers, snaps suppliers whose products were already certified by a third party testing facility, such as Underwriters Laboratories.
Not only do the components themselves need to pass stringent testing, there are design requirements that the garments must adhere to. For example, no metal on the entire garment can be touching the skin when worn, and each garment alone must abide by this. Once the garments are completely finished, you put them through the testing process for final certification. Your products lie at the intersection of the personal safety wear industry and the world of fashion, and you sketched the designs yourself.
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