Kamis, 07 Agustus 2014

Protective Clothing And Their Importance

By Miranda Sweeney


It is very important to put safety first in our day to day working areas. People undertake all sorts of dangerous activities as they try to make a living in all sorts of working environment. Protective clothing should be worn while working in these areas of work for the purpose of safety of each and every person in harms way.

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.

This kind of clothing for protection features in many day to day activities. Caps are worn by athletes, scientist arm themselves with goggles and gloves, bikers wear helmets while other workers may don in thick aprons and heavy boots. This kind of clothing are somewhat very uncomfortable for the workers and costly for employers, but there are many reasons that make them a necessity.

The first and obvious reason is safety. In most working conditions especially technical work that involve machine and specialized tools, like in chainsaw running where there are wood splitter flying all over, workers will need shielding glasses for their eyes, heavy jackets for their skin among other arrays of protective gear. Thus in all kinds of job situations, workers will wear certain shielding clothing to protect themselves from job hazards

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.

Wearing protective clothes also helps to save a lot of money in terms of expenses that would otherwise be incurred in case of work related injuries. Workers do not waste their wages for treatment. Employers will also not waste time with absent workers. Insurance will also not have to compensate workers and if an accident happen to a worker who has worn their protective clothes as speculated then the insurance company cannot deny 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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