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Thứ Bảy, 2 tháng 8, 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 type of protective gear to arm yourself with, one should consider many factors. First and foremost one should take into consideration the material that they are working. They should assess and predict the kind of risk that they will be facing while performing their task and protect themselves accordingly. In the event that one is prone to chemical or physical hazards like tearing, puncture, very high or low temperatures and other chemical hazards, then they should protect themselves with glove and gas mask among others.

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.

Besides other assorted reason for using protective gear, the prime reason is safety. While operating heavy machinery and or specialized working tools like a chainsaw where wood splitters are being thrown all over, workers will need protective glasses for their eyes, thick gloves for their hand and also heavy jackets to protect their skin.It is, therefore, vital to where to where the various shielding clothes suited for the various job hazards protection.

Workers wearing certain protective cloths makes it easy for employers and any interested persons to identify them with certain job areas or station. A chemist or a laboratory practitioner can be easily identified with their lab coats in a chemistry laboratory. Construction site crew will be easily identified by their hard hats in a construction site.

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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