7/28/2014

Protective Clothing And Their Importance

By Miranda Sweeney


In our daily life, human beings will partake in different assorted kinds of activities. Some of this activities comes with many different lob related hazards. This may affect the workers and the people in the immediate surroundings. It is therefore very important for the people working in such conditions to wear protective clothing in order to keep themselves safe from any unprecedented occurrences.

It is very vital to first and foremost carefully make a choice of the materials for each and every job. Factors such as the risks one can expect while performing a certain task in order to choose correctly the kind of protective gear to arm yourself with. For example, if one expects physical or chemical hazards such as tearing, abrasion, temperature and puncture then this will affect the decision to where glove and chemical gas masks.

There are other factors that one must consider before choosing the best protective gear. These are like the touch sensitivity and flexibility required for the task, the period of contact and its type. One should also consider the potential effect after exposure as this will also help in putting up procedures of decontamination.

Athletes must put on protective caps for their safety; scientist will protect their respiration tract with gas mask and their eyes with goggles; bikers will wear helmets to protect their heads while some other kinds of worker will arm themselves with gumboots and aprons while performing their various tasks.

Safety is the main reason for using protective clothes in our place of work. In technical work environments like the ones that deal with heavy machinery and specialized tools, for example while running chainsaw where wood splitter are flying over, then the workers involved should protect their eyes with protective glasses and also where heavy defensive jackets to protect their skin among other array of shielding gear they would don in.

Wearing protective clothes also helps or makes it easier for workers to be identified to their various stations of work. Those that work in chemical labs will be seen wearing lab coats and therefore they will be identified as chemists or laboratory practitioners. Workers found wearing hard hats in a construction site will automatically be identified as work site crew.

Making sure everyone wears shielding gear during work also goes a great way in saving a lot of money and time in a company. Protected workers are not prone to injuries thus they do not use their wages on hospital bills. They do not spend time away from their work station going to hospitals or nursing injuries. Insurance company will spend lesser money on client medical coverage and if anything may happen to a worker who has all the defensive gear in place then the insurance company cant deny the client coverage.

Well protected workers will feel more confident in their workstation and in turn this increases productivity. The safer the workers are, the lesser the injuries occur. With few injuries, then there is steady productivity and with this then output is stabilized. With stable outputs, the company becomes more reliable and profitable.




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