subject: Keep Employees Safe With Protective Work Wear. [print this page] Safety in the work place is of upmost importance, particularly with the pressures from health and safety legislation. Staff must feel safe and be provided with the necessary equipment to keep them protected from potential dangers they face in the work place. Protective work wear is therefore essential for businesses to purchase and distribute to their staff ensuring they know when and how they should be wearing the items.
Protective work wear should be comfortable enough that the employee can still carry out their role effectively as well as being secure enough that they are adequately protected.
From head to toe, employers need to ensure that they keep their employees safe and happy in their environment. From high visibility clothing to hard hats and non slip shoes there is a wide and varying range of protective work wear available, allowing workers to enjoy a safer environment.
Safety can also be enhanced by ensuring that staff and the public know instantly who each person is and what their role is, using name labels for hats and jackets allows this easy recognition. By quickening recognition the time it takes to locate and report incidents to the correct person can be decreased ensuring that the response time is kept to a minimum.
Ensuring staff are visible to moving equipment and machinery is vital. The use of high visibility work wear has become more and more widely spread. High visibility is an effective and easy solution in reducing injury and collision. Especially in winter months when the day light hours are shorter it can reduce the risk of workers not being seen when working in poorly lit areas as well as on their way to and from work.
High visibility items can come in various forms from full jackets to smaller and less imposing arm straps. Even protective work wear can be incorporated to be multi functional for example a high visibility thermal hat works to keep the employee warm as well as seen.
It is important that the protective work wear not only serves to protect the employees but is also protected itself. If protective equipment is damaged then it is useless to anybody. Therefore, it should be stored safely and in the right conditions to optimise its usage and its life. By providing storage facilities for the equipment it also ensures that it is readily available and easy to locate for staff when they need to use it.
