Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Need For Wearing Protective Clothing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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