A personal protection system including a surgical garment that may be mounted to a helmet including an electrically powered assembly, such as a fan. The garment includes a shell adapted for being disposed over the helmet, a transparent face shield, and a fastening feature for coupling the garment to the helmet. The garment may also include a memory, the memory for storing data for regulating the operation of the electrically powered assembly mounted to the helmet based on a characteristic of the garment. The helmet includes a memory interface configured to read data from or write data to the memory mounted to the garment, and a controller connected to the memory interface and configured to control the electrically powered assembly of the helmet.