Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Need For Wearing 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 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.

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 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.

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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