Thursday, August 7, 2014

Protective Clothing And Their Importance

By Miranda Sweeney


Human beings undertake a lot of activities in their day to day life. Most of this undertakings can be harmful in one way, or another to the people performing them and or to the people in the immediate surrounding or environment. Thus for this very reason it is important that everyone in such situations to wear protective clothing properly in order to ensure that they are safe.

While choosing the best protective gear, there are factors that one should consider. The materials one is to use while performing their tasks should guide them in making the right choice, workers should also assess their work and come up with the kind of risk they might be exposing themselves to and therefore take appropriate safety measures to curb them. If they may be expecting chemical or physical risks like abrasion, extreme temperatures, puncture or tearing, then the workers should wear protective gloves and gas masks.

Other factors to take into consideration while taking up the most appropriate protection gear are like the flexibility of the task, the touch sensitivity needed for the job, the contact period and type and also very important is the kind of damage caused by exposure. This will help the workers to put up decontamination procedures.

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.

Workers wearing certain shielding clothing can make it easier and possible to identify them to certain jobs or workstation. A worker in a laboratory donned in a lab coat can easily be singled out as a chemist or a lab practitioner. In the case of a construction site, work site crew can be identified from others with their hard hats that they use to protect their heads.

It is also a way of saving company and also individual time and money. The workers save their wage money that would otherwise be spent on hospital bills. They will also not waste time undergoing treatment. This is advantageous to both the employer and the workers. The insurance company will not have to compensate workers under their policy for unnecessary work related injuries and if the injuries are sustained by a worker who has followed the protective measures to the letter than the company cannot be in any position to deny coverage.

Workers with full protective gear will be more confident in their work areas and this increases productivity. The fewer the occurrence of injuries then the steadier the production rate. Steady production stabilizes the company and also enhances it profitability




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