Essence Of Donning Protective Clothing

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.

The sensitivity to touch and the flexibility of working materials and shielding gear is also a factor to consider. The type of contact and the period of contact should be taken into consideration. Additionally one should also anticipate on the potential effect in the event of exposure and hence lay down the first-aid decontamination procedure.

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.

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 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.

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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